Are you finding A LOT of college girls are either engaged or married?

[loverage21]

I go to this university here in Tennessee and I am finding a lot of girls have rings on their fingers. One particularly gorgeous girl next to me had a diamond ring on her ring finger and I glanced around at the other girls hands in the class and a lot of them had rings on their fingers too. Mind you these are 18 and 19 year old girls.

 

I understand there are some girls who get married that young these days but finding this many engaged and/or married girls just BLOWS my mind.

[anonymousbear00101100]

I go to this university here in Tennessee and I am finding a lot of girls have rings on their fingers. One particularly gorgeous girl next to me had a diamond ring on her ring finger and I glanced around at the other girls hands in the class and a lot of them had rings on their fingers too. Mind you these are 18 and 19 year old girls.

 

I understand there are some girls who get married that young these days but finding this many engaged and/or married girls just BLOWS my mind.

 

It might depend on the type of school (i.e. Christian vs. party). I go to a party school in Washington with 10,000-ish 18-22 girls, haven't seen a single ring. Relationships also aren't super common here, as people would rather get wasted and hookup than have a meaningful relationship.

 

That being said (and speaking very generally), I'm from a part of Washington with lots of LDS people, and so a lot of my friends who went to BYU or BYU-I are already married with children at the age of 19 or 20. I guess it really just depends on the background of your school and the people who go there.

[Nilfiry]

Nah, we are just reverting to the culture in the 1980s, where many women got married and had children before they were 20.

 

Which is not so bad considering that in modern culture, the over all percentage of teenage pregnancies went down, but the percentage of teen pregnancies being unwed went up.

 

At least we are not reverting to the olden days where girls 16 and under were getting married.

[GoodOnPaper]

Several cultural influences can be at play depending on the backgrounds of most of the students -- religious vs. secular, conservative vs. liberal, small town vs. large city/suburban.

 

I went to college in the late '80s, not a big party school but most students were from suburban Chicago areas. Few girls had any interest in LTRs and very few couples made it through graduation intact.

 

Now, I am a professor in the middle of the country at a school where most of the students are from small towns. I don't see many married/engaged girls while they are still in school but a lot of girls run to the altar right after graduation.

[hasaquestion]

There was literally no one at the school I went to who was married. As in zero. PhD students and post-docs, perhaps. But undergrads? Unheard of. Most of them still aren't married. And it wasn't remotely a party school either.

 

Demographics are a complex subject. Hard to make any useful observations.

[loverage21]

There was literally no one at the school I went to who was married. As in zero. PhD students and post-docs, perhaps. But undergrads? Unheard of. Most of them still aren't married. And it wasn't remotely a party school either.

 

Demographics are a complex subject. Hard to make any useful observations.

 

But if a girl has a ring on her ring finger, she is likely engaged or married, right?

[Rejected Rosebud]

But if a girl has a ring on her ring finger, she is likely engaged or married, right?

A diamond ring on the ring finger of her left hand? I think you know the answer to that all by yourself!

[five2nine]

Not all engaged/married but every single girl in my class under 25 were taken.

[GunslingerRoland]

I haven't been in college for a long time, so I can't comment locally. But I'd imagine that is an anomaly... I just looked and only 26% of all women 18-32 are married right now. I'd imagine for college girls 18-22 that number would be considerably lower.

 

 

Engaged would be higher, still I think it's pretty rare for girls to get engaged by 20.