Marriage Age

[KSUViolet06]

I think 23-24 is probably the average in my area, since that's the age when most people are graduating from college and getting into their careers.

I know I might get flamed a bit, but I personally think any of the girls I've ever met who were 18, 19, 20 and married were just kind of, weird.

Where I'm from, the girls who got married young like that were the girls who "didn't go to college because they were married and didn't need to, because they wanted to start their families and you don't need an education to be a mommy (actual quote from my friend's married cousin who's 19)" and thought that Stanford was in Japan (yes, a girl actually said that to me). Either that, or they had some sort of reason like a baby or an impending deployment, which made them feel like they had to get married.

I also find that the girls who got married right after HS were divorced within two years and left with typically 2 kids. They then became the "socially awkward 22 year old divorcee" who parties like I did when I was 18 (because her social growth is a bit stunted).

Now I am NOT saying that every single young married girl is like that, but that's just my experience with my regional area. People just generally don't get married young under normal circumstances around here. I know that there are some areas, like where my extended family is from in Alabama, where getting married immediately after HS is completely normal.