Marriage age

That Marriage age is the age, in which the marriage ceremony takes place.

In societies with free partner choice applies: The more highly that social status a man, that is the larger when purchasing both partners age distance between them (Dh. the woman is the relatively younger). In exceptional cases this relationship can turn around in the present: If z.B. a famous actress with a many years younger man is connected.

Half of all married 1900 ago at the age of over 30 years women around the 20. With the rural population Saxonia the age distance amounted to 5 years and/or. 3 years with that Haeuslern and the middle marriage age for the men 27 years. It always gave individual cases of men, those only with 50 and women, which married with 40 years for the first time and still children had. With men were under 18 years extremely rarely; however z became.B. in Saxonia in 18. Century approximately 2% of all farmer daughters already with 14 and 15 years marries.

With second and multiple marriages because of Verwitwung, in the more recent time also after Divorce, very large disparities in age of the partners are not rare.

In many cases the economic independence of the man was the condition for the marriage ceremony. In rural families a direct connection between the assumption one very often leaves itself Good and/or. in Court accounting book registered Hereditary purchase and the marriage, few weeks before or afterwards, determine. For attaining this economic independence, also in the non-rural population, hereditary obligations were also on the part of that Bride and/or. of the Father-in-law importantly.

For the practical a basic knowledge is essential over the probable marriage age and its statistic distributions. about an excellent source is in order to determine statistic distributions of the marriage age.

In the last two decades in Central Europe the average marriage age increased with both sexes very strongly, if at all still one marries.

Literature

Adelheid from bright: Those Families from 1750 to the present. Bochum 1974.