Age of marriage

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Age of marriage

Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 05 мар 2017, 21:50

Often I come across the belief that in the 18-19 centuries in different Britons and France an unmarried woman of 20 years is a fufuf and an old maid. And this is really true, that's just not for Western Europe, but for the East, especially for Russia.

There is such a thing - the line of Hajnal. In 1965, researcher John Hajnal studied a bunch of documentary data and conducted an imaginary line from St. Petersburg to Trieste. To the west of it, people tend to get married quite late, and a large percentage of the population (usually more than 10%) does not eventually get married. To the east, the marriage age is much lower, and the percentage of people who have not married is less than 5%. Further quoting Massimo Livi Bacci "Let us cite some data in support of this: in the period 1740-1789, the marriageable age for girls in France was 25.7 years (26.6 in the north and 24.8 in the south), and for men - 27 , 9 years old, in England, between 1610 and 1760, this age is between 25 and 26 years for girls and between 26 and 28 years for men, the average value derived from data on 14 German villages of the 18th century is 25.5 years for girls and 28 for men.The data on Scandinavian countries (with the exception of Finland, which will be discussed later) and Holland correspond to the above levels.The Hajnal line clearly separates the two systems: the population of Austria and the Czech Republic, west of it, Has an average marriageable age of 23-24 years, to the east of this line, Hungarians (the average for the ten parishes, between 1730 and 1820) marry much earlier, at the age of 20-21, but, according to Andorra, Of course, the presence of such a dividing line can be interpreted not only from the geographical, but also from the ethnic or linguistic point of view: to the east of it live the Slavs (and also the Hungarians), to the west - the Scandinavians, the Germans, the Czechs (Finns Before the beginning of the Newest Times belonged to the East European model). "

At the same time, the age of marriage is evidently affected by economic and obviously economic-dependent, but slowly reacting culturological factors. If it is customary for a young family to acquire their housing, and this housing is not very easy to obtain - the marriage age rises. If you live not a natural economy (especially - extensive), and, as they say, work for an uncle - the age of marriage rises. If a woman has access to material resources, that is, she can earn, accumulate or inherit money / land - the marriage age increases all the more. After all, most of the history of marriage for a woman means the birth of children, with whom you will not work for your uncle. That is, to ensure a comfortable life, you must earn and save as much money as possible before you marry, because then it is unlikely to work out. Therefore, by the way, in the families of the rich and aristocrats, the girls usually go out (or give them away) earlier than the national average. However, a wealthy heiress will clearly evoke a mating interest even when poorer women are already enrolled in the old maidens.

By the way, it's funny that after the Second World War the age of entry into the first marriage in the heap of Western countries suddenly falls by 1-2 years, and then rises again.
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