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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those are starter marriages. Too immature to know what they want in life, it's hard, divorce and move on.[/quote]

This. And, YES, I know there are successful high school or college sweethearts that work out. The vast majority of the ones I know ended in divorce. You're just (again, usually) not the same person at 18 or even 22 that you are at 30. People change. And people get tied down with kids young and then, at midlife, realize the stuff they missed out on.

I would not be thrilled if my DC married out of college. But it's not my decision, ultimately.

I will also add my own anecdotes: the only ones I know who got married straight out of college were due to pregnancies or wanting to following their military SO and live on base with them (necessitating marriage). I, quite literally, know none of my friends' older kids getting married at 22 anymore. [/quote]

I'm middle class and this is true for me as well.

But because I went to private school on scholarship, I see what the adult kids of my rich classmates are doing, and they are the ones getting married right out of college because the parents are footing the bills for everything and life is damn easy for them.

Sure, they were able to get decent jobs or go to grad or professional school after early marriage, mainly because mom and dad are paying for the wedding, fancy honeymoon, two cars and all tuition.

And the other group I see marrying early are the children of my poor hometown friends, who are going straight into the military and need to get married so the girlfriend / boyfriend gets health insurance and they can get a housing stipend because they are barely scraping buy on minimum wage jobs. [/quote]

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