Dr. Carroll is a nationally - recognized researcher and educator in the areas of healthy sexuality, marriage readiness among young adults, the effectiveness of marriage education, and modern threats to marriage (such as pornography, delayed
age at marriage, materialism, and premarital sexuality).
Other major factors that commonly influence marital success include
age at marriage and educational level of the partners; premarital experiences, including cohabitation, birth of a child, and one's own parents» marriage and divorce; socioeconomic resources; and, couple - level characteristics, which include cultural backgrounds, interpersonal styles, and values.
Sociocultural factors include demographic factors such as
age at marriage, levels of education and income, gender differences, race / ethnicity, social class, and employment / occupation (Larson and Holman 1994; Holman 2001; Larson 2003).
Journal of Marriage & Family, 76 (2), 352 - 369.; regarding
age at marriage, see Raley, R. K., & Bumpass, L. (2003).
In essence, Kuperberg was able to show a reduction in the risk of divorce after cohabitation by controlling for age at co-residence instead of
age at marriage.
Age:
Age at marriage has consistently been found to be highly related to later marital quality (Holman & Linford, 2001).
Not all her analyses use controls, but where she does, Kuperberg includes variables such as age at co-residence (or
age at marriage, depending), education, race / ethnicity, family stability growing up, if one grew up religious or not, if one had previously cohabited with someone other than the mate (serial cohabitation), if the couple had moved in together while expecting a baby, and if there had been any birth prior to cohabiting (within the relationship or from a prior one).
Personal and relationship contexts: include family background characteristics such as previous marriages, existing children, the quality of an individual's parents» marriage, family relationship quality,
age at marriage, and parents» and friends» approval of the relationship.
Specifically, older
age at marriage, having a child or being pregnant together, beginning the relationship with hooking up, reporting that one's partner had sexual relations with someone else, reporting any physical aggression while dating, living together before reaching a mutual commitment to marriage, and the respondent's perception that he / she was more committed to the relationship than the partner were each associated with lower marital quality.
Finally, I show that the recent changes in
age at marriage and divorce are associated with more egalitarian marriages and decreased marital conflict.
Couple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality:
age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wedding.
Three different empirical approaches all demonstrate that the increase in women's
age at marriage can explain at least 60 percent of the decline in the hazard of divorce since 1980.
I further develop an integrated model of the marriage market to demonstrate that monotone decreases in the gains to marriage (due to the aforementioned exogenous changes) can produce both the increase in
age at marriage and the rise and fall of divorce rates observed in the U.S. since 1950.
An early study by Gary Becker and colleagues (1977) found that the relationship is non-linear: at first, increases in
age at marriage are associated with greater marital stability, but after a point, additional increases are associated with lower stability.
Our statistical analysis of this puzzle found that although unconventional matches are indeed associated with higher marital instability — even in couples who have delayed entry into marriage — the stabilizing effects associated with older
age at marriage and higher levels of educational attainment are far larger and outweigh the risk factors.
In relation to this fact,
age at marriage has been correlated with divorce rates.
«This highlights the need for a greater understanding of the cultural and regional variations in the effect of age at menarche on
age at marriage both within and between countries.»
Age at marriage may be a risk factor with respect to divorce, but perhaps the more valid conclusion is in the opposite direction, that high divorce rates scare couples away from early marriage.
Fertility levels were influenced by many factors other than
age at marriage and celibacy levels.
The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average
age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.
Not exact matches
According to a study done
at the University of Utah in 2015, the best time to get married in order to have a long, successful
marriage is between the
ages of 28 and 32.
But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising
marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside
at least — like one big party.
One of Mohammad's 11 wives (Aisha) was married
at 6 and he consummated their
marriage at age 9.
Jeffrey Lockhart, too, is driven to the dictionary
at a formative
age, not by a priest but by his parents» acrimonious
marriage and divorce:
Marrying mostly among themselves, and
at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same
age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic
marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.
Such many found cases the girls were forced convinced into
marriage at younger
age by their parents or family members if orphans and when girls were asked why the answer was always poverty and starvation were the common enemy for many nations and populations!?
At an
age in which our government seeks to widen the gap between the religious and the secular maybe the State would be better off the back off the idea of regulating plural
marriage.
Although uncertain of her actual
age of
marriage but I know for sure that she was
at the
age of bearing a child once she was with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Teresa Malecka, who had to convince Wojtyla (whom she and others called Wujek, «Uncle»), that she was ready for
marriage at age twenty, is an accomplished musicologist and the former vice-dean of the Cracow Academy of Music.
At age twenty - nine, with two graduate degrees but no wife, I am the perfect target for Frederica Mathewes - Green's disappointment with the rising
age of
marriage.
The average
age was sixteen or seventeen, and
marriage, particularly of girls (
at least in the dominant strata of society which set the norms), generally took place one or two years after puberty.
In our post-Nietzschean
age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be
at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of
marriage par excellence?
For example, no government can deny the right of its citizens to marry, but every state has certain
marriage regulations: minimum
age, one spouse
at a time, opposite sex, blood test, a license.
Trained thus in the cultivation of chastity they will be able
at a suitable
age to enter a
marriage of their own after an honourable courtship... Above all, let them (teachers) perform their services as partners of the parents.»
The goal is to allow the coexistence of the most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside
marriage,
at any
age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the global sexual revolution.
As the leaders of this mosque see it, segregating Muslim boys and girls simply means that young people arrive
at the
age of
marriage without getting to know other Muslims of the opposite sex
at all.
To the statement, For me
marriage has been a good thing, the percentage responding yes declined from
age twenty - two to thirty - five; but then it rose gradually until
at age fifty - one it was back to the level of
age twenty - one respondents!
It has been noted by astute demographers that
at the time the baby bust generation began to reach
marriage age, the articles in women's magazines began to depart from the «Why He Won't Commit» genre to articles about «The New Morality» and reactions to the sexual excesses of the previous decade.
Here he commended
marriage at a reasonably early
age, and deplored the common picture of young people living wildly, becoming disgusted with themselves and then turning to being a monk or a priest for which «not one in a hundred» was suited.
As for people that are saying «Christians raise their children to hate the thought of sex and to wait till
marriage,» not only is it for their children to hopefully make their parents religion their religion but also keep them from ending up with a kid
at the
age of 14.
The awareness of the need for marital enrichment and deepening can dawn on a couple
at any
age or stage of
marriage.
Also, the girls are forced into
marriages at very young
ages.
What prompted him to pull up roots
at the
age of 39 and move his operation to the Belcher mansion was his divorce early this year, after 17 years of
marriage.
Then, following her
marriage and the birth of Damien, she found herself,
at age 19, out of the game.
Two years after catching my ex-wife cheating on me - with a woman -, after a 25 year
marriage, I can say that
at age 56 I feel pretty «sideways».
Still, this may change: same - sex couples will likely be marrying
at younger
ages from here on as their hetero counterparts, the study suggests, and that may «make
marriage a more significant relationship transition demanding greater time, energy and commitment.»
Because they were denied access to legal
marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time
at older
ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.
Then, after almost 20 years of
marriage,
at the youthful
age of 44, I became a father.
Except it sounds like what he really wants
at this point in his life is a caretaker, which a lot of men around his
age want and which a lot of women his
age are less like likely to want to be, especially if they did that in long - term
marriages or relationships.
When the news broke this week about why Kate Perry and Russell Brand's 14 - month
marriage ended last year — Brand,
at age 37, was eager to start a family and Perry, 27, wasn't ready — I was reminded of my first
marriage.