More and more young women are entering the workforce directly after high school or college and delaying marriage(average age women married in 1950 was 20.3 whereas the averageage women married in 2007 was 26.0).
These are just some of the reasons the averageage at first marriage has been rising for several decades and now hovers around 27 for women and 29 for men.
Americans are getting married later than ever (the averageage of first marriage for men is twenty-eight), and bailing on domestic life with alacrity (half of modern unions are expected to end in divorce).
Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the averageage of first marriage and child higher and higher.