Average Marriage Age

[CarolinaDG]

I heard today (yes, I watch way too much E!) that the average age for women to get married is 25, and for men 27. There's still hope for me, yet!

[TheEpitome1920]

I remember thinking as a child that if I didn't get married by the age of 23 my life would be over,lol. I'll be 23 in 6 months.

[WCUgirl]

I always said I would wait until I was at least 26 to get married...I'll be 25 next month and my husband and I just celebrated our 2nd anniversary...

[Taualumna]

I've also heard that the more education one gets, the later he/she marries. So if you're planning on getting a PhD, you're probably looking at being a 30-something bride!

Originally posted by CarolinaDG
I heard today (yes, I watch way too much E!) that the average age for women to get married is 25, and for men 27. There's still hope for me, yet!

Wow, I guess they'll consider me a spinster if I don't marry by this August then.

You said you got this from E! ? No offense, but where exactly did they get their "facts"?

[Kevin]

That's the national statistic. They say it's lower here in Oklahoma, but I can find no data to support that claim (although I suspect it's true).

[Sister Havana]

I always thought I'd be married by 30. I am 30 now and obviously not married. Actually as 30 got closer I kept thinking "35 would be a good age to get married...no rush." Once that gets closer I'll probably start thinking 40 is the perfect age...this will go on til I'm 85 or so, thinking "90...now that's the time to get married!"

[ambición6]

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[msn4med1975]

Marriage and divorce is the focus of my dissertation. The average age for first marriage is what E reported. It has gotten progressively higher over the last few years because people are getting more education, delaying childbirth, wanting to live indepedently before marriage, living together instead of getting married and because we are just living longer that it's not necessary to rush to the alter. There is no hard and fast rule that this is stopping more divorces from occuring, delaying marriage that is, you have a better chance at sustaining the marriage if you are a bit older usually because you know how to compromise and have experienced a bit of life on your own before the marriage.

[Jill1228]

As a kid, I thought if you didn't get married by 25 you were a spinster.

Then I was like...I won't get married before 30

I got married at 34...17 days from my 35th birthday

I definitely believe you should not marry before 25...I know if I had, I would be divorced by now

[CarolinaDG]

You've got to think, there are still people out there getting married REALLY young, so that whole average is in there. My mom got married when she was 19, met my dad in high school, and they've now been married 27 years. I'm sitting here thinking, if I were her I'd have my first child now and be pregnant with the second... hard to imagine!

I don't know what time is the "right" time to get married. I think some people may do well being married at 17 or 18, but I think it's highly unlikely. For me, I'm still committment-phobic... they had something the other day in a magazine or something telling women to watch out for signs that they were with a commitment-phobic, and I met every last one of them! I know that I'm not ready, but I think too many people think too quickly that they are. Though, I gotta admit, it would be nice to have the GUY.

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by Jill1228
As a kid, I thought if you didn't get married by 25 you were a spinster.

Around here, people start wondering about you if you're not at least close to getting engaged by age 25. I mean, 25 is pretty much a spinster around here, where a lot of people get married right after high school or, at the very least, during or right after college. I'm like a lot of y'all, though...when I was younger I thought I'd be married by now (I'm 23), but the older I get the younger I feel so I'm thinking my sister had the right idea by waiting til she was 33. I think 25 and 27 as average ages sounds reasonable, though, taking into account areas like mine. We're getting better, though...the youngest person that I know of who got married was 14, but there were only a couple of those when I was in school and so far my sister says none of her middle-school classmates are getting hitched, so we're on the right track.

[Lady Pi Phi]

I never thought I HAD to get married by a certain age. I just always said I would never marry before I was 25. I'll be 24 in september. No sings of getting married by 25 either. It doesn't matter.
My mum was 26 when she got married. 30 when she had me. I think that's a good age. My parents have been married for 28 years.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
...the youngest person that I know of who got married was 14, but there were only a couple of those when I was in school and so far my sister says none of her middle-school classmates are getting hitched, so we're on the right track.

OHG! How do you get married at 14? What kind of life do you think you'll have!?
When I was 14 I was getting my parents to drive me and my girlfriends to the movies and we were still talking about boys and jellybeans (a la Family Guy )

That's just crazy!

Originally posted by CarolinaDG
I heard today (yes, I watch way too much E!) that the average age for women to get married is 25, and for men 27. There's still hope for me, yet!

I guess that makes me exactly average. I'll be 25, he'll be 27. That's a little freaky, actually