The Best Age for Marriage

People are agreed that happiness is harder to attain when husband and wife are under the age of twenty. The most suitable age for a girl is between 21 and 25, and the most suitable age for a man is around thirty; experience has shown that man and woman in this period are nearer to maturity, and more ready to welcome a happy married life, than at any other age.

A special study was made of 409 married couples of various ages, and it appeared that those among them who were under twenty met with great hardship in passing from the free, independent life of the single state to the married life bound by heavy responsibilities, and that they took a long while before they were able to adjust themselves to these developments and changes...