The Pros And Cons Of Millennials

The idea of falling in love with the right person, then marrying them, buying a home and starting a family together is exciting, however devoting your life to one person is a commitment that needs a long and hard thinking about before deciding to tie the knot. Which brings the question, what is the need for marriage? According to the United States Census Bureau the average age of first marriage in the 1950 's was 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women and now the average age is 29 for men and 27 for women ("Families and Living Arrangements"). Increasing amount of Millennials don 't want to rush into marriage, although they embrace the idea of it, they understand it to mean something less important than it did before. There are three major reasons why fewer marriages

Kelsey Pharis, from the Huffington Post suggested the reason why millennials are not marrying is because they have grown up around a high divorce rate (Phariss). Choosing the right person you are going to spend the rest of your life with is a process that’s needs to be carefully made before starting a family, and millennials recognize that. Many people feel that millennials are scared of commitment, however that is not the case, instead of marrying too fast as a solution to ease finances, millennials find that having a stable income should be a prerequisite for marriage, so yes to an older person it may look like millennials are afraid to commit because they are getting married later but actually millennials are deciding to commit more wisely, and for that it takes time.To further prove the point, there is no proof that marrying later is a bad thing, according to Justin Wolfers, a economist from the University of Michigan says, “the millennial marriages that do occur have lower instances of divorce … nearly two-thirds of marriages will never involve a