Martin writes…..’What is happening is the age difference is rising to return more to the historical norm. Boys just mature slower than girls and as the younger girls give up on the same age boys, the marriages are lasting longer as they did before Holywood turned lust into love at first sight. Curious to watch how the trends are changing back to historical norms.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution and socialism, the boy first had to get the house, farm, and the chickens and then approach a girl’s father. There was none of this stuff; oh we just love each other and that’s enough. Socialism seems to have enabled the age gap to collapse on the assumption that the state was there so you did not have to prove you could support a family in advance. ”