This article interested me because I was curious as to what the answer was. I, and many people I know, don't particularly plan on getting married. I didn't think it was a very common thought, however. When I saw this article I wondered whether this was a more widespread, prevalent frame-of-mind than I previous thought. Upon reading the article I was relieved to read that marriage isn't a thing of the past; the article talked mostly about how marriaging young was a dying trend. The average ages of marriage in 1960 was 20 for women, 22 for men. Compare that to the average ages today, 27 for women, and 29 for men, and anyone can see that clear increase in ages, but why? The various reasons for this increase are examined by the author in the article.
The author was a persuasive one, even if he was a bit of a bore. He offered plenty of logos, though there was a lack of both ethos and pathos. The article was very long, and honestly I skimmed most of the statistics, which made up the majority of the article. The author definately got his point across though.
Interesting. That's not very surprising though. 20 seems like a very young age to get married, since a lot of girls go to college these days.
ReplyDeleteim not surprised at all that the average marriage age has changed. It seems like everyone is career focused now and is willing to put on marriage and a family life on hold
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