What should be the minimum age for getting married?
I don’t have a problem with 18 year olds getting married but it sure helps if one of them is older, too. But there are many 18 yr olds who really aren’t very good judges of character and who can’t really see the person who they are marrying and even know their own mind. Yes, I married at 18 but my husband was 23 and we had known each other for almost 5 years very well. And we’re still married 34 years later but I usually don’t want to bring the age up around younger people because then they seem to feel it validates all their feelings and they can just go for it. So we only mention it when we can tell them the whole story and how we learned about each other and that we deliberately didn’t go too fast. But I don’t think restricting marriage to a certain age would work because they would just live together till they were old enough and still make mistakes. Mybe the requirement should be to go to relationship classes, including a class on how to settle differences and what makes a good pa
