Why do most people get married in their 30s?

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Genie23 · Accepted Answer

Because many in their 20s were busy with building their career and were trying to understand what kind of partner they want, whether they want to marry or not, etc. Some are afraid of commitment when they were younger. By the time people are in their 30s, they are emotionally mature, mentally ready to take the next step and financially stable too. After dating some people, they know what they want and who they want to spend the rest of their life with.

Vevv123 · Accepted Answer

Because some people focus on their career or school or their future goals and that takes up a lot of time. You most likely should focus on building a family when you already have the financial stability and stability in general. Also, around your 20s you’re still learning and figuring things out. And that’s not taking into account the time it takes to meet and really get to know someone.

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

Most people are scared to fail at marriage

So I think just around 30 you might feel that you got everything out of your system

You have experience just about everything you wanted to experience.

And your ready to take life on

BCRanger10 · Accepted Answer

Because these days, they're more concerned with work, traveling, and... I dunno, finding themselves or something goofy like that. Or they just don't find someone of the opposite sex that they don't hate until then.

AviatorTom · Answer

There are several reasons:

1. It takes a while to find the correct mate.

2. In their 20s, many people today are establishing a career, which is easier to do when they are single.

3. By their 30s, a person is usually emotionally and economically stable, increasing the chance of a successful marriage.

RingOfFire · Answer

The median age of marriage in the US is 30.5 years for men and 28.6 years for women, which is older than the age of marriage in most populations in the world.

The reason it is older is because America is the headquarters of capitalism, the most successful economic system for creating widespread prosperity for all. That's why even though it has a much larger population than the vast majority of countries in the world, there is no poverty in America (unless you define poverty as only owning one car and only having last year's iPhone model instead of the latest one).

Because of this it allows women the freedom of not having to depend on marriage for sustenance and it gives men an opportunity to build a career and a bit of a nest egg before having children so that they can support them with the same prosperous lifestyle they enjoyed growing up.

The downside of getting married this late is that women have a biological clock and once they turn 30 their fertility begins to decline and the decline accelerates with each passing year after that. Because of this, the late marriages contribute to the declining birth rate in America which is a hazard for America's future.

EzraIsShy76028 · Answer

It seems like the right age to me.

Most people in their 20s are sort of too young and too immature to have kids for the lack of a better description. Usually 20 something year olds are all about partying and doing drugs. Experimenting with different things even if they have bad consequences.

And not only that but most 20 something year olds just don't have stability. Especially in this shitty modern day economy that keeps getting worse. In the good old days you could basically move out and be set for life as early as 18 year olds. Now that's a straight up fantasy.

By their 30s usually people have sort of settled down more. The lifestyle of constant partying and drugs probably isn't as appealing anymore. They usually have more financial stability.

And relationships in your 20s are usually more superficial and based around just looks and sex. By your 30s you usually value more important things and know what you like and don't like.

4ngelic · Answer

in the west it's just kinda the social norm. as for why it's like that i think it's a combination of extended education, trouble getting stable jobs right out of uni, everything being so unaffordable that people have to save up for years to afford things that are necessary to settle down like a house, the culture of going wild and exploring in your 20s, women wanting to focus on getting established in their careers before thinking of marriage & kids and our culture devaluing marriage in general as well

Noredcarpet · Answer

I think it is because they are then at that stage in life, financial stability, wanting kids, but it depend too what kind of background you have, what culture, how you view your religious or non religious perpspective. Maybe they have been a couple for years and are now sure on one another. As for me I've been engaged, broken, but our initial plan was to get there. Something happened when I moved and I went from nobody being as aggressively flirting with me to a whole bunch without me doing anything different. These guys were experiencing stress I think to get someone to marry. I was in shock for weeks, lol, before grasping what on earth was going on with them. This happened when I was working, mid day or evenings. Someone complained to me were I use to live that nothing ever happens, I told her to come over, lol

Bolt1104 · Answer

A lot of people get married in their 30s because life has changed. Most people spend their early 20s figuring out who they are, building a career, becoming financially stable, and learning what they truly want in a partner. By your 30s, most people have more life experience, more emotional maturity, and are in a much better place to make a long-term commitment.

It’s not that love isn’t real in your 20s. It’s just that people in their 30s usually know themselves better, have clearer goals, and tend to choose partners for long-term compatibility rather than rushing or trying to grow up together. That’s why marriages in the 30s often have stronger foundations than those in their 20s.

DexWest · Answer

Why do most people get married in their 30s?

The data shows the median first marriage age in the US is ~28 for women and ~30 for men, up from lower ages decades ago. 2 3

Controversial take: Women spend their 20s playing the field, chasing careers in “girl boss” mode, and embracing the “I don’t need no man” vibe. By 30, they realize the high-value guys aren’t chasing them anymore, so they settle.

Men? Women judge us by what we provide—stability, home, solid income. That takes time to build, so we hit our stride in our 30s.

Thoughts?

Anonymous · Answer

Changing priorities of society.

It used to be meet someone, get a good job, marry them, and raise a family.

Now it's meet people, go to university, sew wild oats, party, enjoy your twenties, get a good career somewhere in there, meet more people, sleep with them, realize at some point you're closing in on your 30's so you better start growing (this goes dbl. for women that's why they usually start 2 years earlier). Vet the person you think is the one. And hopefully they are or in a few years you'll be divorcing them and starting over again. Statistically speaking though most people still only marry once. Now whether that's because most choose the right person still or whether that's after doing it once they never want to do it again. I couldn't tell you.😆

CherryLove007 · Answer

Brain maturity is reached around 21-22 for females and 29-30 for males. I am giving an opinion so I have to say it's beneficial to wait until the brain is mature.

exitseven · Answer

most young people today have protracted adolescences. They are less mature than past generations and are not interested in marriage until they are older.

Alex-Snow · Answer

They may want to start a career first or have some sex with different people before marriage. Everyone is different and maybe at a younger age they are not ready emotionally for a lifetime commitment

u7u7u7u7 · Answer

Beside financial reasons, it's the time when you realize that loneliness kicking real hard pushing you to start a family especially when your friends around you are getting married while you still the only Isaac Newton among them.

lightbulb27 · Answer

anymore, its when they are established... hormonal timing.

WhitneySnow · Answer

Because your twenties are a time to have fun and your thirties are a time to settle down

beenherebefore · Answer

That’s when most people feel financially stable.

jazzy34 · Answer

That’s when most people have their lives together and feel stable enough to settle down.

loveyouoak · Answer

Because as people get older, they usually pick better partners.

LiamJHayden · Answer

If the laws were more equitable I'd already be married. As they currently are I will never marry.

888theGreat · Answer

Well they have career selected and they might want kids. If you wait until 50 to have kids , how much fun is throwing the ball from a wheel chair?

SoccerPlayer99 · Answer

About 20 years ago, most people used to get married in their early 20s.

ABC1x1x · Answer

They dont. Most people get married in their early 20's

Paige90 · Answer

To have children

Christina08 · Answer

I guess because they're ready. Maybe school to become a lawyer, or to get a master's.

Jennz6 · Answer

Who’s getting married?

scott04sa22 · Answer

It possibly has to do with timing.

jahaims · Answer

Most people mature lately af

Anonymous · Answer

Because it's their personal choice.

MasterKS · Answer

they should be mature.

eagle1951 · Answer

just when they happen to find the right one

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