MARRIAGE STATISTICS
At a recent meeting of a Woman's Institute it was sliown by popular vote that a girl should marry young. This is in strict accord with statistics. After the age ot' 2o cold figures indicate that a girl's chances of marriage fall off sharply. Ou the other baud
a- young man’s chances increase after that age. The- older a young man gets the greater the danger of marriage ; the older a girl gets the less the danger. At the age of 20 a young man has a -It per cent, risk of\|§ing married within the next ten years. A girl lias a risk some ten or fiitpen per cent, higher. Indeed these statistics show that we are in danger of marriage all our lives from the age of fifteen'upwards to a century or over. At fifty-five a man’s chances of marriage aiv admittedly only some 10 per cent. But centenarians seem to be as keen on marriage as ever. Marriage statistics in South Africa show that in one year one centenarian, four men over Do, and 300 men over 8o fell to brides varying in age from middle age it]) to over 11)0 years. It is of course one thing to decide to marry young, hut quite another to stay married. Fortunately statisticians have been hus v calculating the stresses and strains of married life so that the girl who marries young may estimate her chance of staying married. Couples who 'can manage., by hook or by crook, to stay married for the course of one year have 82
chances in a hundred of remaining in
the. same state of bliss for another fourteen years. Those who have lasffourteen years have DDG chances in I’OnO of holding on for another fi teen years. Couples who have won through to silver weddings have DDD3 ehanc's in 10. ODD of celebrating a golden wedding—provided they live long enough. A man in the fifties who is not married (about. 8 in 100) has a 20 to 1 elm nee of remaining a bachelor to the end. On the other hand, statistics prove that men who do decide to marry when nearing the fifties invariable fall for a girl years younger than themselves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1931, Page 3
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371MARRIAGE STATISTICS Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1931, Page 3
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