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=== Are late marriage and reproduction unnatural? === | === Are late marriage and reproduction unnatural? === | ||
[[File:AgeAtFirstMarriage.png|thumb|400px|Boomers were an exception, but marriage is now particularly late for women. One can see the [[virtue signaling|moral panic]] about the marriage age gap.]] | |||
Historical data on age of marriage and reproduction suggests that late first marriages and late reproduction were not unheard of in history, especially in k-selected societies. Evidence from Sweden and Canada suggest the [[boomer]] generation was an outlier with particularly early marriages and reproduction.<ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Sweden_mean_age_at_marriage_1871-2016-sv.png</ref><ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.htm</ref> In Denmark, the current mean age at first birth of 29 is comparable to the 1850s.<ref>https://www.ejog.org/article/S0301-2115(19)30407-5/fulltext</ref> | Historical data on age of marriage and reproduction suggests that late first marriages and late reproduction were not unheard of in history, especially in k-selected societies. Evidence from Sweden and Canada suggest the [[boomer]] generation was an outlier with particularly early marriages and reproduction.<ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Sweden_mean_age_at_marriage_1871-2016-sv.png</ref><ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.htm</ref> In Denmark, the current mean age at first birth of 29 is comparable to the 1850s.<ref>https://www.ejog.org/article/S0301-2115(19)30407-5/fulltext</ref> | ||
In England, the mean age at first marriage used to be considerably lower in the 17th to 19th century with women marrying about five years earlier compared to today's marriages (25 v 30).<ref name="roth2001">https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> In the same data, delay of marriage and fertility rates track economic trends fairly closely. In times of economic hardship in the mid 17th century, English women married as late as 27, not far from today's figure. | In England, the mean age at first marriage used to be considerably lower in the 17th to 19th century with women marrying about five years earlier compared to today's marriages (25 v 30).<ref name="roth2001">https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> In the same data, delay of marriage and fertility rates track economic trends fairly closely. In times of economic hardship in the mid 17th century, English women married as late as 27, not far from today's figure. | ||