The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.

过去几十年来，初婚的平均年龄一直在稳步上升。

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Their fears were not unfounded—the mean age at first marriage did rise—but in time, approximately 92 percent of these Southern-born white women found someone to partner with.

她们的担忧并不是没有事实依据——初婚的平均年龄的确增长了——但是大约92%的出生于南部的白种女人及时找到了自己的归宿。

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Married off to her cousin at age 16, she had been beaten routinely by her husband and in-laws in their poor rural home in Paktia province for the first three years of her marriage.

自从她16岁嫁给自己的堂兄，加入帕克·提亚省这个贫穷的农民家庭，三年来她经常性地遭到丈夫及夫家亲戚们的毒打。

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That's one reason the average age of first marriage is the highest it's ever been, Brown added.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Americans are getting married later than ever (the average age of first marriage for men is twenty-eight), and bailing on domestic life with alacrity (half of modern unions are expected to end in divorce).

NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the average age of first marriage and child higher and higher.

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