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I'm shocked that anybody would be telling women 18-22 to marry that young. This seems like the worse and most retro advice ever. I went to college in the 60's and this is what was expected of my generation. I guess we haven't come as far as we thought!
Right. It is so much better to spend years being promiscuous, selfish, and enjoying your declining fertility. When you get tired of playing around with someone, dump them. Then magically hope your habits will change once you get married.
Right. It is so much better to spend years being promiscuous, selfish, and enjoying your declining fertility. When you get tired of playing around with someone, dump them. Then magically hope your habits will change once you get married.
Huh? Those are the only choices? Marry while in college or be promiscuous?
I'm shocked that anybody would be telling women 18-22 to marry that young. This seems like the worse and most retro advice ever. I went to college in the 60's and this is what was expected of my generation. I guess we haven't come as far as we thought!
While I think Susan Patton is a twit, it is a sad reality that now, when the average age of getting married is later than ever before, divorce rate is its highest or pretty close. I am not remotely saying that it is causal by any means but I do think the notion that getting married young is going to be worse than getting married later is sort of baseless. Especially when you add in the issues with fertility associated with "waiting" to have children so much later in life.
Which is worse, a higher chance of divorce or a higher chance of infertility? Might just be THE question for 20 something women to answer now.
When I matriculated at Penn State in the early 1970's. there was a major option (overwhelmingly female-oriented) known as Individual and Famly Studies, burt everyone referred to it as Individuals Finding Spouses.
The basics of anatomy still favor the pursuit of high-paying,but usually demanding and technically-challenging jobs by the male of the species, and the role of nuturer and domestictor to the female; or as Jerry Seinfeld put it -- "Men Hunt and Women Nest."
Changing sociectes are rearrangimg that balance and most of us are changing with it; but conditions which evolved over all of human history have a long residual effect, and no one should be blamed or accused simply because biology and genetic inheritance sometimes poimt out an easier path for certain individual participants.
Most of the serious relationship withng my circle of friends at the time found their way to the altar and stayed put, BTW. but many cohabitated before the wedding, and few had chilren until a few years after.
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