Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
