Nowadays, the average age of a first marriage is about 27 for women and 30 for men. Stats don’t lie: back in 1950, the average age of marriage was around 20 for women and 23 for men. The main reason is, perhaps, the fact that nowadays we marry much later than people in previous generations. The world is much better connected and very few people limit themselves to their building or neighborhood when choosing a lifetime partner. Even more fascinatingly, one out of six had lived within the same block, and one out of eight had lived in the very same building! He discovered that one out of three married couples had lived within a five-block radius of each other before they got married. In 1932, a sociologist named James Bossard compared 5,000 consecutive marriage licenses on file for people who lived in the city of Philadelphia. “Finding someone today is probably more complicated and stressful than it was for previous generations, but you’re also more likely to end up with someone you are really excited about.” That’s the final conclusion of the joint investigation by American stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari and New York University sociologist Eric Klinenberg shared in their debut collaboration “Modern Romance.” The investigation itself, however, is much more interesting.
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