For you, when is the proper age for a woman to be married?

Baguio, Philippines
February 11, 2008 3:41am CST
Nowadays, even teenagers get early marriage. Maybe they have found the right guy for them. My sister is 24 years old and she ask the permission of our parents if they will allow her to get married but they insist that she's still young and its not the right time to get married. On my own opinion, the proper age for a woman to be married is at 25 -28 because atleast they are already matured enough on how to handle relationships especially that most of them already have experience because of their past relationships. These women can already cope with pressures and stressess brought by having a complicated relationship....what do you think........
12 responses
@ashlar (41)
• Philippines
12 Feb 08
for me, maturity doesn't depend on your age. you won't say 30 years old is mature enough! I think marriage or the marrying age should be based on the stability, financial and emotional, of the couple.
• United States
12 Feb 08
I say it is when that individual person says they are ready. By the time I turned 24 I had been married for almost a year and had a 5 1/2 month old baby. A year later when I turned 25 I had a 1 1/2 year old and a 2 month old and was getting ready to celebrate my 2nd anniversary. When I turned 28 I had been married for almost 6 years, had a 5 1/2 yo daughter, a 4yo son, a 3yo daughter and was about 5 months pregnant with my 4th child. I'm 31 now, been married for 8 years and have 4 kids. I don't think I was "too" young to get married. I got engaged at 22 and I felt quite old and mature. I can't imagine waiting until I was almost 30 to get married.
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
11 Feb 08
In my opinion the right age to get married for a man or woman is when each of them has completed training that allows them to support a place for themselves, pay the bills and support children if they have any. All the women should have a trade, a profession, a skill that will allow them to earn a living in the event they have to be the one that has to support the family.
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
11 Feb 08
I think the legal age for those who want to get married are around 18 to 21 but, that's just what I recall. Getting married is really a big decision to make. Its not as easy as pressing Control and the key "U" to easily undo whatever mistakes that might occur. The youth now-a-days are more daring than before and think that marriage would solve their troubles when their partner gets pregnant. That isn't the case though. I once heard that a good time for women to get pregnant would be around 30 to 35. It seems indeed a good time since the body is well developed to accomodate a new life that might come into existence for a couple so to speak. So, age doesn't really matter as long as the couples involved would be responsible enough to take the duties and responsibilities that they have to carry when they get married.
• United States
11 Feb 08
To be blunt: There isn't a right age. If a girl (or a boy) finds somebody they love and want to get married too, they should get married. And no, I don't mean for them to have kids immediatly. Marriage /==/ equal kids. They could live together and get their college degrees or whatever they were going for, and once they were ready they could have kids a few years into the marriage. So there is no right age, and trying to say there is a "right" age is simply foolish because of the ways different people can act, mature, and who they meet.
11 Feb 08
The way i see it, deciding when to marry is easy. to me it all comes down to how stable you are financially before you commit. Young love isn't recommended as they usually start out with low wage jobs. When they finally have kids then the pressure starts to mount. Wait until you've graduated from college or university or one of you can handle the load for raising a family. The funny thing is the right answer for "What is the right age for (blank)" usually doesn't have anything to do with the actual age number at all. Where being 35 really has no advantage or disadvantage from being 25.
@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
11 Feb 08
For someone to settle in a married life, he or she should be mature enough to handle all the pressures and problems in store for such kind of life. It really depends. One's partner is also a big criteria. You should be sure of your partner if he or she can be a strong man or woman after all. Well, to be safe, I would say 25 years old or above would be good.
@mistissa (1349)
• Netherlands
11 Feb 08
There is no right age for getting married, some people are very mature at age 18 and others may be mature at 24. It all depends on the person themselves, same with having children. One person might still not be ready when they are 30, another might be ready at an earlier age.
@aowaow (1516)
• Indonesia
11 Feb 08
I must very disagree with your comment. Sorry, we just try to share in here. It depends on how each personality to suit themselves in the community (family), if she brings her egotistic in her family's life, in other eyes, she is a childish, even though she is over 30s right now. I had two samples in my family, one is married young, 16 years old. And in 3 years later, her ability, her charisma of a mother to a son - and charisma of a wife to a hubby, her adult grown up thinking in early 20 is almost match with her hubby's mom. Her mother is a good sample to be followed, she thinks, and made her to become a reliable woman of a good wife. She is just 20 that time since overall from childhood habit into a mother's nature. So many stress is brought out, is because that person (woman as in your idea) never want to learn the art of balance, tolerance, and kept everything is her own rights. This is dangerous. Even she is 30s above, that doesn't make she is better than the younger mom. So, answer is everything is random. No fixed scale which can tell us what age is better for married. Maybe mostly you will find older age is better, but it's not as simple as we conclude in our brain before we got to know each other with the woman.
• India
11 Feb 08
Hi johnselwyn11, In my opinion the right age for women is after 18 years old. So, your sister is physically ready for marriage.With regard to handling relationships and responsibilities, handling come to women so naturally and they are gifted by god in that manner. There is no need to worry about these aspects.Now your sister is 24 years and please support your sister in her marriage request and convince your parents. Good Luck.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Feb 08
Much as I hate to say it, having a grown up daughter if my own, she has been very courteous to your parents, now they need to recognise that she has found her man and be allowed to marry. They may not like him, may think that she is too young, but it is no longer their decision. Most importantly they should show love and support to her and be there for her in the coming years, no matter what might happen.
• Philippines
11 Feb 08
I do agree with you... My ideal age for women to get married is from 25 to 28... Because of the knowledge they have acquired through experience might be sufficient enough to enter a family life already... But of course every individual has certain age of maturity... So we cannot tell when a woman is in the right age to get married... What i could suggest to evry woman who decides to get married whether what age they might be is to assess themselves first. : _If they are already healthy to get married _Are they ready to have a child and teach them what they have and can only give....? _Is her man a good man who can give their chiildren and his husband good life...? _Are they ready for a more complicated life as to what the elders say... _Is she and her husband to be spiritually haelthy? _Is she aware that more lives especially children are affected when a marriage didn't work? These are some of the questions we must ask ourselves... But that remains only a few...