Their fears were not unfounded—the mean age at first marriage did rise—but in time, approximately 92 percent of these Southern-born white women found someone to partner with.

她们的担忧并不是没有事实依据——初婚的平均年龄的确增长了——但是大约92%的出生于南部的白种女人及时找到了自己的归宿。

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The median age at first marriage for women has gone from 21 in 1970 to 27 presently.

女性初次结婚的年龄中位数已从1970年的21岁变成目前的27岁。

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Married off to her cousin at age 16, she had been beaten routinely by her husband and in-laws in their poor rural home in Paktia province for the first three years of her marriage.

自从她16岁嫁给自己的堂兄，加入帕克·提亚省这个贫穷的农民家庭，三年来她经常性地遭到丈夫及夫家亲戚们的毒打。

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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.

CNN: Women, don't marry young

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.

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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.

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