Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
