Thursday, May 25, 2006

Couples Waiting Longer To Get Married

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
The U.S. Census says in data to be released today that the median age of a first marriage for women is now 25.8. For men, it's 27.1. The numbers have been creeping upward for decades.

Through the 1950s and early 1960s, women typically married around 20 and men around 22.
Do you know many people,with college degrees,who live in expensive urban areas like Boston,New York,or Chicago that get married at these ages? Expensive real estate means less marriage.