Are adults foolishly postponing that walk down the aisle?
An Op-Ed writer extols the virtues of getting married young — but there are more than a few problems with his arguments. Rebecca Traister Apr. 28, 2009 | I love the smell of napalm in the morning. And so does the Washington Post, which lit up the beginning of this work week with an Op-Ed by University of Texas at Austin sociology professor Mark Regnerus headlined “Say Yes. What Are You Waiting For?” Regnerus’ piece is about the values and virtues of getting hitched while you’re young. Marriage, Regnerus feels, is an institution that in the United States is being foolishly postponed by young people who have pushed the average age of initial union to 28, up five years since 1970, and the oldest average since the U.S. Census Bureau started keeping track. Regnerus claims that if it were just men tying the knot later, he wouldn’t complain. After all, he used to believe that some young men were the only ones who “lamented marriage as the death of youth, freedom and their ability to do as th
