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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought this might be a researched article that provided facts and figures about why it may be positive to get married and have kids young.  It’s really just a right wing thought piece written by someone who also happens to be a professor.

Who gives a shit about the young woman’s Christian faith…it’s not relevant to the article and it would be more compelling if the UVA girl getting married young was a raging atheist.

I would be interested in facts-based research on the topic…do married couples get ahead faster at work?  Is it better to have kids earlier when you are more junior so you can better lean in to your career by your early 30s?

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There's a lot of discussion of the data showing that married young people, especially those with kids, are happier and less lonely than single young people. There's not data about career success from marrying young, but are we more concerned about "getting ahead at work" than we are about being happy?[/quote]

What data?  Where?

You missed the forest through the trees.  I thought this was some research article published by a UVA professor showing empirical support for marrying young.  I was using career progression as just one example, but I couldn't care less what the research was trying to measure.

This was nothing more than a right wing opinion piece authored by someone who happened to be a UVA professor.  Honestly, the author could have come from any career or walk of life.[/quote]

It's not a research paper, but there's data cited. The fact that you missed it makes me wonder if you read the article with any attention.

[quote]Young women (aged 22-35) who are single like Elizabeth are indeed more likely to report that they are lonely and unsatisfied with their lives. Fifty-five percent report that they are frequently lonely compared to 36 percent who are married; likewise, 47 percent of unmarried young women say they are “not satisfied” with their lives, compared to just 18 percent who are married, according to the American Family Survey.[/quote]

[quote]Young men (22-35) who are single and childless are also more likely to be lonely and unsatisfied with their lives. Unmarried young men are 23 percentage points more likely to be frequently lonely and more than twice as likely to be unsatisfied with their lives compared to their married peers. [/quote]

[quote]the happiest young women (22-35) today are not footloose and fancy free, they are married moms. And the ones least likely to be happy are single and childless. Data from the General Social Survey indicate that 41 percent  of young married moms (22-35) are “very happy” with their lives, compared to just 14 percent  of their female peers who are single and childless.[/quote]

[quote]young married men (22-35) who are married with children are almost three times as likely to be “very happy” with their lives compared to their peers who are single and childless. Only 14 percent of young men who are single and childless are “very happy” compared to 37 percent of their peers who are married fathers. [/quote]

[quote]Not only are young adults who put a ring on it happier with their lives in general, the research also suggests they enjoy marriages that are somewhat happier and more sexually satisfying than those who marry later.[/quote]

And the statement that the author "could have come from any career" is silly. The author is a sociologist who studies marriage for a living. You may not like his conclusions, but he's an academic relying on data to make his case.[/quote]

22-35 is a pretty wide age range for the data. 35 is significantly past the national average. Young marriage should be an option in the right circumstances, but I do not believe in rushing people down the aisle. [/quote]

It's meaningless...if the article is supposed to be about getting married young, then only data for people marrying say 22-26 is relevant.

27-35 is called getting married at a relatively normal age...with 35 actually being well above the median marriage age.[/quote]

Agreed. And that American Family Survey happiness data was collected by a group out of BYU from 3000 participants. It’s very hard to collect data of this nature and control variables/account for bias. I don’t care enough to do a deep dive, but how were the participants selected? Were 3000 Mormons polled? Because you’re sure as heck going to get results that can’t be extrapolated to the general public by only surveying white religious people from Utah. [/quote]

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