Early Marriage

As I myself mar­ried “early” (23) I found the fol­low­ing arti­cle by Al Mohler to be of some interest.

Excerpt:

In real­ity, Amer­i­can evan­gel­i­cals are not “becom­ing slow and lax about mar­riage.” To the con­trary, this is now a set­tled pat­tern across the evan­gel­i­cal land­scape. Reg­nerus gets the facts straight, report­ing that the median age at first mar­riage is now 26 for women and 28 for men –  an increase of five years since 1970. As he notes, “That’s five addi­tional, long years of peak sex­ual inter­est and fer­til­ity.” Though evan­gel­i­cal Chris­tians are mar­ry­ing at slightly ear­lier ages than other Amer­i­cans, Reg­nerus cor­rectly observes that this is “not by much.”

At this point, Reg­nerus deliv­ers his bombshell:

Evan­gel­i­cals tend to marry slightly ear­lier than other Amer­i­cans, but not by much. Many of them plan to marry in their mid-20s.Yet wait­ing for sex until then feels far too long to most of them. And I am sug­gest­ing that when peo­ple wait until their mid-to-late 20s to marry, it is unrea­son­able to expect them to refrain from sex. It’s bat­tling our Creator’s repro­duc­tive designs.

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