The marrying man - MSN Dating & Personals

By Margot Carmichael Lester

“The State of Our Unions,” a recent study by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, uncovered some very interesting statistics about men and marriage.

More men are delaying marriage. In 1970, the median age of first marriage for men was 23. Today it’s almost 27, and college-educated men wait a year or two longer. Most men, however, are married for the first time by age 30.

There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the fact that more people choose to marry after they finish school and establish themselves professionally. In previous decades, marriage was something you did concurrent with these activities. And let’s not underestimate the loosening of social mores that used to require marriage before sex and cohabitation. Now it’s acceptable to try on relationships and living arrangements without the necessity of wedlock.

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