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Age at First Marriage

7 Reasons To Get Married At Any Age You Want

The Stir | Posted 04.20.2013 | Weddings
Read More: Marriage, Marrying Young, Right Age to Get Married, Getting Married, Marriage Age, Young Marriage, Marriage Advice, Age at First Marriage, Weddings News
The Stir

Whether you marry at 19 or 38, there is only one recipe for happiness and contentment and it has nothing to do with age.

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What Every New Census Report Shows: More Americans Are Single. But Why?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cohabitation, Divorce, Fear of Intimacy, Married With Children, Living Single, Unmarried Households, 1-Person Households, Age at First Marriage, Married Couple Households, Marriage, Singlism, Same-Sex Couples, Singles-Bashing, Rise of Singles, Rates of Marriage, Unmarried Couples, Census Bureau, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

How do the stories in the media explain the increase in the number of single people and decrease in the number of married Americans? One explanation did not seem to occur to anyone.

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Was the Single Woman Neglected by Second-Wave Feminism?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Second-Wave Feminism, Spiritual Growth, Feminine Mystique, Liberal Feminism, Marital Status, Motherhood, Sigmund Freud, Bachelor Girls, Economic Opportunities, Shriver Report, Now, Age at First Marriage, Political Rights, First-Wave Feminism, Balancing Work and Family, Marriage, Betty Friedan, Education, Workplace, Activists, Emotional Independence, Susan B. Anthony, Compulsory Marriage and Mothering, Single Women, Single Blessedness, Politics News
Bella DePaulo

An important focus of first-wave feminism was political independence; in the second wave, economic independence was among the significant goals. Now, argues Moran, it is time to set our sights on emotional independence.

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