People need to STOP bringing back old topics.

To anyone saying "No age is too young." Bullshit. That's why divorce rates are so high. The highest percent of divorces are of those aged 24 and younger.

Depends on the people, I guess. My sorta-ex/sorta-boyfriend have known each other almost two years now, and it'll be almost three when I move in with him (when I turn 18). I'd be perfectly comfortable marrying him before I was 25. If I waited until I was 25, I'd have known him for ten years, and I'd have lived with him for seven. I don't think that much time is necessary. =/

~Maggot

Probably 17 or 18 is the youngest that should be getting married.

I don't really think there's a certain age you should be over or under, but I think you should at least wait until you're both in your twenties. You two probably are really serious about your relationship together, but after high school you might go to college or get a job and wind up meeting someone new. And you both still have two more years of high school so I would definitly recommend waiting until you've both graduated. But until you settle down a bit after high school with college and jobs, I would wait on marriage, it's a commitment that lasts your whole life so you want to be sure she's the one

~Sara

sounds about right...i honestly cant wait for the married life..buncha obstacles to go through..but itll definitely be worth it

17

^^ gabba love you.
and anyways bout the post. im not sure.
i say a good age would be young 20s
it all depends on the relationship
if everythings there then what are ya waiting for?!?
lol good luck. and enjoy it.

yer the perfect age would be 25

i think 17 is the youngest

This thread is full of future divorcees.

Aye. Now let's go find that Baptist thread and warn them their thread is full of future divorces, too.

Sorry, hun, but you can't base everything on statistics, when not everything is shown.

How educated were the majority of these people? (People who graduated high school and college are more likely to stay together. And, if this is the case, and they married before graduating, then their age isn't the factor and their education is.)

How mature were they? (Obviously people who are more mature can handle marriage better. And this applies in people that are older, too. My mom's 50-ish and has the maturity of a five-year-old, and guess what? She's been divorced twice and is getting married again.)

Did they take marriage counseling? (Chances are, they'd be more likely to succeed if they did.)

How long did they know each other? (A marriage is more stable if they've known each other for a long time. If my ex and I got married when I was 18, we'd have known each other and sorta been dating for 3 years. That's longer than most people wait to marry. Or did they only know each other 6 months, making it more likely to fail, no matter how old they were? This may be a large number of cases, since most people that married at 18 probably didn't start dating more than a few years earlier, and the chances of marrying their first or second boyfriend/girlfriend isn't good. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with a lot of the divorces.)

Point is, you're not taking a lot of factors into account because you can't know what they are. As I said, if I waited until I was 25 to marry my sorta-ex, we'd have known each other 10 years and I'd have been living with him for 7. God knows a lot of people that marry at 18 are making a mistake, but just looking at everyone who says they'd be willing to and say they're going to get divorced is a horribly blind-sided comment.

~Maggot

well to the law 15-17 depending on if your parent consented for me i would say at least 20-22 at least.

Anyone who thinks 17 is old enough to get married, which several people on this thread have said, is crazy. Any 17 year old getting married is going to wind up divorced. I'm not being blind sided, I'm being realistic. No 17 year old or 18 year old is mature enough to handle marriage. People aren't mentally developed until sometime in their twenties so obviously a person that isn't mentally developed wouldn't be able to handle a commitment that requires a great deal of maturity and responsibility such as marriage.

Even if you and your ex got married when you were 18 and had known each other for 3 years that doesn't mean your marriage would work out. The fact that you've broken up already shows a lack of stability in the relationship. I'm also assuming he's the same one that cheated on you, so that says something as well.

Marriages are much more stable after long term relationships, as well as when the two people are actually old enough and mature enough to handle the commitment of marriage, which is supposed to be life long.

Also, education or lack there of, isn't going to be as big of a factor in marriage as age, as you implied it is. I have a cousin who neither she nor her husband went on to college, but they have one of the most successful marriages in my family. However, unlike many of my other cousins, they didn't get married at an incredibly young age. She was 25 or so when she was married and he was 26 I believe. I have other cousins who were married and divorced by age 25.

I also know someone else who is 20 and already divorced. I know several other people in their early 20s who are divorced.

The fact off the matter is when people are young they don't know what they want. How can an individual who doesn't even know what they want out of life yet, possibly know what they want in a life partner?

Obviously things like this aren't going to be the case for 100% of people in this age range, but it is for the vast majority.

Really? Prove it. Again, prove it.Except not everyone has the same amount of maturity. When I was barely 15, I was mistaken by most people to be at the very least 17, although most assumed 18. And there are others I've met who are in their earlier twenties, and I'd honestly think they were 14 based on their behaviour.
I'm not saying it definitely would. I'm saying that not everyone who marries at 18 jumped head-first into something they knew nothing about.Except we still behave exactly like we're together. Again, I'm not saying it would definitely work out; I'm not saying our relationship is perfect. But I am saying you're generalising way too much.
Here, let me fix that for you.
Sweetie, age =/= maturity. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
I never implied they're the same in importance, but studies show people who are more educated are less likely to divorce. Congratulations! You've shown that not everyone fits a generalisation! Exactly like I've been doing.
And I know someone (dead now) who married when she was 16 and their marriage lasted until her death.
Really? Prove every single young person doesn't know what they want.Vast majority, eh? So what is the exact percentage?

~Maggot