what is the average age pple get married?

[ginastar]

what is the average age pple get married???

[OpenBook]

It's gone up in the last few decades. I think it's 29 for men and 25-26 for women?

[Star Gazer]

First marriage? Second?

 

I read a study that showed a relationship between how young folks are when they get married for the first time and the likelihood for divorce. As you can imagine, the younger a couple is when they marry, the more likely they are to get divorced.

 

So I'm not so worried about being older than the average age for marriage.

[ginastar]

I meant for first marriage. Im 29 and newly single but Im hoping all the normal guys are not married already at this age

[112233]

Google knows everything.

 

Looks like late 20s in America.

[112233]

I meant for first marriage. Im 29 and newly single but Im hoping all the normal guys are not married already at this age

 

You're probably a woman and so you probably don't want an answer, you'd rather talk about how you feel about being almost 30 and single, I bet.

[allina]

I'm 27 and recently married. However, out of my circle of friends my husband and I are pretty much the only married ones.

 

I think it's different if you're from a tiny town where no one gets an education, but in larger cities, among educated people, it's normal for a 30 year old woman to be unmarried.

[january2010]

Median age for first marriage is 26 for women and 28 men in 2009.

 

And figures for 2009 also show that 65.7% of men were married by the time they reached 35-44.

 

http://stateofourunions.org/2010/si-marriage.php

[Lauriebell82]

I meant for first marriage. Im 29 and newly single but Im hoping all the normal guys are not married already at this age

 

I don't think 29 is too old. I am 27 and just got married, it's not out of the ordinary at all for woman to be in their late 20's, early 30's and unmarried. I also wouldn't worry about lack of single men, men are wanting to get married at a later age now, as well.

[make me believe]

I think it's different if you're from a tiny town where no one gets an education, but in larger cities, among educated people, it's normal for a 30 year old woman to be unmarried.

 

Agreed. I'm 27 and will be 27 or 28 when my fiance and I get married, but I know many people who have gotten married younger than me, as well as people older than me who aren't married. I don't find it strange or uncommon for someone in their 30s to be unmarried. I think an "average" age only happens in certain circles -- especially among those who think you HAVE to do things a certain way. (Like a friend of mine who thinks she's an old maid because she's 25 and not married yet. Most of the people she grew up with & went to school with got married in their early 20s.)

[paleblue]

Im a guy in my late 30's and have never been married. Altho I have had at least 2 chances to do so.

 

I was just at a Christmas eve party a few days ago and met a married couple. He is 68 (and still snow boards!). He was telling me the first time he got married was 50! His advice - Don't rush it, there's plenty of time.

 

I guess the ages to get married are all over the place. I know it seems like there is pressure to get married in your 20 and 30's. I know, I've felt it. I've been asked whats wrong with you??? Well nothing out of the ordinary, I just want to take my time and be sure. Its a serious thing. Don't want to just jump into it because I am expected too!

[aerogurl87]

I'm 27 and recently married. However, out of my circle of friends my husband and I are pretty much the only married ones.

 

I think it's different if you're from a tiny town where no one gets an education, but in larger cities, among educated people, it's normal for a 30 year old woman to be unmarried.

 

I agree with allina, it depends on the area you're from. People in bigger cities who are more focused on building up a career early on, usually get married later. Like in their late 20s to early 30s. But if you're from a smaller town somewhere, it's not unheard of for people to get married in their early 20s. But although statistics are important, what's more important is the two people getting married. If you hadn't done and seen everything you wanted to do while single until now, then it's better you waited than getting married young and regretting it.

[SincereOnlineGuy]

I meant for first marriage. Im 29 and newly single but Im hoping all the normal guys are not married already at this age

 

 

I've read that, for women, the average age of FIRST marriage is 25/26, and for those with Masters Degrees it is 30.

 

 

Don't know what to say about men.

[denise_xo]

I don't know what the average is where I live, but I was 29.

[that girl]

And figures for 2009 also show that 65.7% of men were married by the time they reached 35-44.

Actually, I think that shows the percentage of 35-44 year old men who are currently married.

[Butterflying]

I think 26 to 28 is probably a good age to get married. However, most people marry right out of college, which is around 22 to 25 years old. For highly educated people, or business minded people, it's usually late twenties or early to mid thirties.

 

For someone in their 40's who has never been married, chances are slim that they ever will. That is the reason people start freaking out in their mid thirties if they want to get married and haven't found the right person yet.

[MrsL1987]

I'm 23 now and my husband and I got married when I was 22 and he was 23.

[Stung]

I was engaged when I was about 20, but it didn't work out for which I was ultimately grateful. I married my boyfriend/partner of almost 5 years when I was 34. In my circles it is very common to marry for the first time in your thirties, and to live together for years beforehand; I have only one friend who married in her early 20s, and everyone thought she was mad (she is, by the way, now on her second marriage). I know of a few others who married in their late 20s, but most of my friends and acquaintances married at 30+.

 

It's largely cultural, influenced by regional attitudes and education. I can count the number of men I currently know who married before the age of thirty on one hand, btw, and one of them is my dad .

[mariakiriaust]

The average age at which people get married depends on the country in which a person lives and it might be a 21 years as in many asian countries or it can be 35 years or more as in many western countries

[GorillaTheater]

I was 21 and my wife was 19. That was 27 years of marriage ago, but I wouldn't recommend getting married so young to anybody else. We both had a considerable amount of growing up to do and were in pretty bad financial shape until I finished school. The fact that I was drunk when I proposed and she was drunk when she accepted may have been a factor in our situation ...