Today the average marriage age in India has risen to 22 for women and 26 for men.
Some groups, such as the HRC, advocate for setting a minimum age for marriage, though they've not said what age.
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 average age women married in 2007 was 26.0).
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The average age for marriage for women is now 23, and 27 for men.
More practically, as they age, marriage and family compete for their time and energy.
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In Saudi Arabia, there is no law that stipulates a minimum age for marriage.
The group's director, Diana Nammi, said in some traditional communities children are promised in marriage at a young age.
But the age of marriage has been rising, as it often does in places where women become more educated.
And, really, when you look at the lowest income, most of that is just simply a factor of age and marriage.
There appears to be widespread support in Saudi society for a minimum age for marriage, which the authorities say they are working towards.
In Saudi Arabia, no law stipulates a minimum age for marriage.
"In Bangladesh, the legal age for marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys, so there's nothing wrong with the law, it's in the implementation, " says Hall.
That's one reason the average age of first marriage is the highest it's ever been, Brown added.
Unsurprisingly, Citi reported that the importance of marriage to women decreased with age.
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These are just some of the reasons the average age at first marriage has been rising for several decades and now hovers around 27 for women and 29 for men.
Combine this with even more recent data from Pew Research Center, which shows that marriage has declined across all age ranges, but has dropped most among those ages 18 to 29.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the estimated median age at first marriage in 2011 was 28.7 for men and 26.5 for women, compared with 26.8 and 25.1, respectively, in 2000.
In the past half century, the median age for first marriage has risen by about six years for both sexes, with grooms taking their first plunge at 28.7 years and brides at 26.5 years.
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Americans are getting married later than ever (the average age 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 average age of first marriage and child higher and higher.
Many factors contribute to a stable marriage, including the marital status of your spouse's parents (folks with divorced parents are significantly more likely to get divorced themselves), age at first marriage, race, religious beliefs and socio-economic status.
The median age for a first marriage has increased two years since 2007.
The courts grant a divorce to mark the end of a marriage that was valid when entered into, whereas an annulment is for a marriage that at no time was valid (as when one of the parties was under the age of consent at the time of the marriage).
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Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55, " adding, "I can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
But even if we outlawed marriage in the twenty-something years, age alone is not what makes women sacrifice.
Most men and women feel that a two year age difference in favor of men is the marriage ideal.
In middle age, he is profoundly orphaned: his marriage has failed, his two young sons live with his former wife, his parents are dead.
Dr. Suhaila Zein al-Abedin of the Saudi National Association for Human Rights -- also a government-backed group -- voiced concern not only about the age difference, but the circumstances of the marriage.
Marriage rates in 2011 fell across all the below-30 age groups, with the greatest drop in the 25- to 29-year-old group.
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For the past three years I have lost at least two friends to early marriages at an age where I didn't even know what marriage was.
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