what do U think is the optimum age for marriage for Women???

Well since I am 31 and still unmarried I wouldn't pick any of those. LOL I think it all depends on the woman. I have childern so I don't have the ticking clock and I didn't feel like I had to be married to have them. But others may feel that way for them. Some people may not be ready in their 20s to get married. Can they really put the other person first? Are they still too focused on what they need in life to think of what another person may need. I think there shouldn't be an age that is right but a person who is ready. That all depends on the person. I may never be ready... but I am thinking maybe 50 LOL Vicki

In some cultures it is really important that girls are married at a certain age. As a Westerner I feel there is really no optimum age to get married. If you want children the best age is under 30 but increasingly women have their first child in their late 30"s or even at 40. What I find is the most important thing for girls is to get an education or learn a trade so they can support themselves independently of a husband. Tragedies happen and often girls who married young and have no trade, no certificate or degree of any kind are left totally destitute. Also sometimes a marriage does not work out and women with no skills stay in abusive relationships because they see no way out for themselves and their children. So to sum up the best age for a girl to get married is after she has completed the education of her choice and is able to earn her own living if she has to.

Speaking as a woman and speaking from my own experience, I think it would have been pretty awesome and ideal for that "first love" to have worked out. After too long, it seems quite a bit of baggage gets picked up a long the way. But, it's a shame first loves rarely work out, and with that said....I am now 30 and finally engaged and I would have to say that through it all, I definitely would still have waited until I passed the age of 25. The mid-twenties is sometimes hard on women and for me, I learned a lot about who I was during that hard transition. That is, of course, if the "first love" still didn't get a chance to work out. :P Am I making sense?

yeah me too. i'd like to get married before 25 years old to enjoy my young age with my children. also to enjoy longer life with my grandchildren. i think before 25 we should get to the point that we are already through with our youth and get on with our new phase of life which is settling down.

Going along the same lines as others who have responded before me I'd have to say it isn't so much age as it is maturity and readiness. There is no majic age when this happens each individual reaches that point in their own time. I must say I do feel people in their teens are way too young for marriage.

depends on the country i guess. in my case i would say way above 25 maybe above 30 even... coz you study till you're ---by best luck 24, then you can do a post diploma that takes 3 years (by best chance) and there is a carer and i think you should first mature then make decisions so important as this