{"id":14288,"date":"2009-10-18T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:52:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:52:52","slug":"what-is-the-traditional-age-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/18\/what-is-the-traditional-age-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the “Traditional” Age of Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., when people refer to the “traditional family,” they usually mean a family that they associate with the 1950s.\u00a0 But the 1950s was a really unusual time in American history.\u00a0 Elsewhere I’ve written about how the husband breadwinner\/wife homemaker model is an American anomaly<\/a>.\u00a0 The data below, put together by the New York Times<\/a><\/em>, shows that the 1950s was an unusual time in terms of age of marriage also:<\/p>\n

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Though the data is rough (five points across\u00a0107 years), you can see a distinct dip in the age of marriage that includes the ’50s.<\/p>\n

So history isn’t, as we often suppose, a straight line from one point to another.\u00a0 It’s a complicated story.\u00a0 And the 1950s… well, to choose that era as “traditional” is no more reasonable than to choose today or the enlightenment or the dark ages or…<\/p>\n

Also see: everyone needs a wife<\/a> and what does “traditional marriage” look like?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the U.S., when people refer to the “traditional family,” they usually mean a family that they associate with the 1950s.\u00a0 But the 1950s was a really unusual time in American history.\u00a0 Elsewhere I’ve written about how the husband breadwinner\/wife homemaker model is an American anomaly.\u00a0 The data below, put together by the New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,23384,253,272],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51762,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/51762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}