Best Age to get Married
There is no ideal age to get married and start a family, especially in our modern era. Marriage is a long-term commitment and it really depends on whether the two people want to make that commitment too early. The only necessary criteria for deciding to get married are mainly three:1. Whether the couple are MATURE enough to take on that responsibility, whatever their age. Whether they can deal with the emotional needs which will come into play, especially when children are on the scene, and which will be there for a very long time afterwards.2. Whether they can afford the responsibility of getting married and looking after themselves independently without being a drain on others or without expecting others to help and the responsibility of looking after the new human beings who will come into their lives.3. And whether they WANT to settle down early together and have children.One a person reaches adult age (18), having a family does not depend on the age of the people involved, but whether they can cope with the emotional and practical demands and responsibility that a living as a couple and having a new family bring with it.I got married when I was 21. With hindsight, I do not think I was really ready for settling down yet as I didn't look at my life in 'forever' terms. My husband wasn't quite ready either as he was in the Air Force and posted abroad. But we were very much in love and wanted to be together. Perhaps if we were more mature we might have done things differently, but one can never dictate life. We had our first child two years later and the good thing about that is our kids grew up with us at the same time so we were closer to them when they were teenagers, as we were still very young ourselves, than if we had had them later on. The marriage lasted 36 years and we still care a lot about each other, so there are no regrets.There is definitely no ideal age to marry, regardless of what their families might wish for. I guess it is really down to the individuals involved whether they are ready to take the plunge or not. However, it seems that young men, on average, are getting married after they have passed 34 years old and young women after 31, obviously, when they have established a career and set up their future. With the growing independence of women, marriages are not regarded as essential as they used to be, so many people are now deferring getting hitched until they're older.
