CHART: Check Out How The Age At Which People First Get Married Is Soaring

Business Insider ^ | Oct 27, 2013 | Joe Weisenthal

[Kip Russell]

Here's a fascinating chart that probably comports with what you're seeing in real life.

The age at which people are first getting married is soaring. (Via John Podhoretz).

The jump in the last decade is particularly notable.

There are various theories for why people are getting married later, but one notion has to do with cultural attitudes towards marriage, and the growing perception that marriage is a "capstone" of life achievements, rather than a cornerstone.

[Darteaus94025]

Does this chart include the Anna-Nicole Smith marriage?

[gorush]

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

King David

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.

Sasha Guitry

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Anonymous

The great question, which I have not been able to answer... is, “What does a woman want?”

Dumas

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

Sigmund Freud

‘Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.’

Red Skelton

‘There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.’

Sam Kinison

‘I’ve had bad luck with both my wives.
The first one left me, and the second one didn’t.’

James Holt McGavra

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming.
1. Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you’re right, shut up.

Patrick Murray

The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once....

Nash

You know what I did before I married?
Anything I wanted to.

Anonymous

My wife and I were happy for twenty years.
Then we met.

Henny Youngman

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

Rodney Dangerfield

A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: ‘Wife wanted’. Next day he received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing: ‘You can have mine.’

Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): ‘My wife’s an angel!’
Second Guy: ‘You’re lucky, mine’s still alive.’
Anonymous

I haven’t spoken to my wife in over three months...we’re not fighting, I just don’t like to interrupt.

[Gen.Blather]

Part of this is probably due to the fact so many younger people are still living with Mom and Dad at 26. They’re still considered “children” by the government at that age and must be carried on their parent’s insurance. I’d certainly tell my kids, you’re not bringing a spouse into my house.

[BradyLS]

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. —Red Skelton

UPDATED:

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to two restaurants every week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and drinking. She goes to Ruby Tuesdays, I go to T.G.I. Fridays.

[GreaterSwiss]

It’s because the system is stacked against the guy.

Marriage could be a few years, alimony could be a lifetime. Prenups aren’t 100% as asking someone to sign one could be stressful/duress and render it invalid.

One guy in MA got divorced in 1980ish. In 2007ish his ex sued him and now his new wife pays his ex wife alimony. MA has since reformed the divorce laws but just one example.

[oh8eleven]

Age At Which People First Get Married Is Soaring
I discovered this about 6-7 years ago doing family genealogy research.
Scouring hundreds of census reports (especially 1880 - 1930) I was surprised to see so many "kids" still living at home into their late 20s and early 30s.
And quite sadly, how almost all women were listed as having multiple children born, and multiple children dead.
In fact, it took until the baby boom generation to end both those trends.

[Gen.Blather]

“Marriage could be a few years, alimony could be a lifetime. Prenups aren’t 100% as asking someone to sign one could be stressful/duress and render it invalid.”

I’ve known several women who apparently just got married to divorce well. They’re utterly charming when you meet them. Then, they rake the guy over six ways from Sunday.

[Kansas58]

Obamacare contains a HUGE “Marriage Penalty” as well, as much as a $12,000 difference in tax subsidies for those who make $32,000 when single, if they get married.

[LibertyOh]

“...it is better to marry than to burn...”

Paul. 1 Corinthians 7:9

[Bernard]

The definition of "Well Off" is when you have more money than you know what to do with.

The definition of "Filthy Rich" is when you have more money than your wife knows what to do with.

[James C. Bennett]

Marriage?

LOL, sex before marriage is culturally condoned and expected by a plurality these days. How can marriage have value in such an atmosphere?

Try (a variety) before you buy, I guess.

Fornication got the capital punishment in biblical times, as did homosexuality.

[onedoug]

38 years.

“Always make sure you’re right, then, Go Ahead.” —David Crockett

[freeandfreezing]

It looks like the age trend follows in general the ease with which young men can earn enough money to feel comfortable taking on the responsibilities of married life.

Note how the slope lessens during the 1990s when there were strong employment opportunities for young men. Its steep climb now is another indicator of how our economy is not working well for young people.

[9YearLurker]

That chart makes the ‘50s look strange, not our present era.

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha.

[supremedoctrine]

GREAT quotes, especially the one from Sasha Guitry.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well back in those days you did not have all the pre natal care and medicine and technology we now have either.

[supremedoctrine]

“......better to marry than to burn”———
the first and only time I heard that phrase was from a girlfriend I had in the mid-70s,who’d already been married and divorced from a guy she “doscovered” later was gay It could have been a mutual discovery for
all I know. Interestingly, I met my future wife , a GF of hers, at a Thanksgiving party she threw in order to gt rid of a turkey I’d been given at
work. Life is messy.

[oh8eleven]

I'm well aware of that. But to see so many women who had 7, 8, 9, even 10 kids and only 2, 3, 4 still alive was just shocking.
I think of what the poor had to do back then to stay alive, and then I look at today's takers of society b*tching and pi$$ing and moaning about how bad they have it.
Infuriating to say the least.