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Age gap between husbands and wives in the United States. (www.pewresearch.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23749463

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/15/a-growing-share-of-us-husbands-and-wives-are-roughly-the-same-age/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

So in another 115 years they’ll be the same agar?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I’m not sure if this is good or bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife is one month older than me. Total cradle snatcher; I was practically groomed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my first partner was a few months older than me, and I always said I was gonna report them for abusing a minor (they were 18 and I was 17) and child grooming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I pray you get justice one day brother

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I'm not American. However, my ex wife was 6 years older than me, and my now and forever wife is 5 years younger than me.

I don't know if that means anything, but, that 11 year age difference between them is real. They are literally from different generations in terms of their mentality, expectations, goals, etc.

Has been interesting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wild is that in 1880 it was probably ~14 yo girls and ~19 yo guys getting married.

..And in 2022 it's probably ~28 and ~30 year olds.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Not so much. Even in the 1800s, it was unusual for girls to get married before they were 18 or so, and the average age for a first marriage was more like 23.

The '14yo child getting married in the 1800s' is the kind of thing that certain conservatives--esp. religious conservatives--like to claim in order to normalize creepy behavior. It happened then--and still happens now in some states!--but even at the time it was very abnormal.