Freedom to marry young
Here is a link to a very interesting article, from the Washington Post, about reconsidering the age of getting married, thanks to Carolyn McCulley at Radical Womanhood.
In my research on young adults' romantic relationships, many women report feeling peer pressure to avoid giving serious thought to marriage until they're at least in their late 20s. If you're seeking a mate in college, you're considered a pariah, someone after her "MRS degree." Actively considering marriage when you're 20 or 21 seems so sappy, so unsexy, so anachronistic. Those who do fear to admit it -- it's that scandalous.
How did we get here? ...
And those of us who are not so young anymore, who knew this and would have acted on it given the opportunity, can read Carolyn's additional paragraph at the end.