This is actually inaccurate. You are portraying it as a monotonic trend towards older marriages, but it was actually a local minimum in the 50s and 60s. The ave

This is actually inaccurate. You are portraying it as a monotonic trend towards older marriages, but it was actually a local minimum in the 50s and 60s. The average age of marriage in 1890 was roughly the same as 1990 for men and 1980 for women[1]. After that typical marriage ages dropped gradually until the 50s and 60s and then started rising again. [1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-first-marriage-1890-2010 https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-firs...