MARRIAGE AGES.
Marriage agea fluctuate as much as the rates of marriage, though more slowly, and in such a way that when the rate is high the mean ages are low. The mean age has since 1873 been gradually increasing ; marriages have been decreasing; and those who have married have been older each year. In 1873 the bachelors averaged 25-6 years and the spinsters 24-2, these being the minimum figures; while in 1888 the ages were respectively at a maximum of 26 -3 and 24-7. This difference repeated every year would mean a considerable reduction in the growth of the population. The mean age at marriage in the professional and independent classes is seven years more advanced for men and four years more advanced for women than among miners— in fact, generally speaking, the higher the class the later the age at which marriage is contracted. More persons, too, remain permanently celebate in the upper than in the working and artisan classes.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2182, 11 July 1890, Page 6
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162MARRIAGE AGES. Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2182, 11 July 1890, Page 6
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