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Early Marriage

Why You Shouldn’t Marry Early (Or Ever)

March 24, 2010

If you’ve been around here lately, you know that I’ve been defending early marriage. I’ve been doing this mostly because I think early marriage has a generally bad reputation, and I think it deserves some respect and reconsideration. I think young people are fully capable of getting married at an early age if they are [...]

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Objection #5 to Early Marriage: Unrealistic Expectations

March 22, 2010

So, I’ve been responding to common objections that people make to early marriage: that young marriage results in poverty; that young people are too immature for marriage; that they’ll end up with poor matches; and they’ll be encouraged to marry just for sex. I’ve got one last objection to address. A final argument that people [...]

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Objection #4 to Early Marriage: Marrying for Sex

March 6, 2010

For the last few weeks I have been defending early marriage. Part of my argument for why we ought to consider marrying younger had to do with saving sex for marriage: I believe that sex should stay within marriage, but that it’s unreasonable to expect people to wait until their late twenties — the age [...]

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Objection #3 to Early Marriage: A Poor Match

March 2, 2010

(This is a continuation of my Defense of Early Marriage series. I’m responding to common objections). “But what if you find out he snores? Or sleepwalks?” These were the objections a classmate of mine had when he found out that I was engaged after just two years of knowing and dating Ben. He couldn’t believe [...]

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Objection #2 to Early Marriage: Immaturity

February 24, 2010

I’m continuing my defense of early marriage by tackling objection #2: immaturity. A lot of people believe that anyone under 25 will be too immature to make such a profound and lasting commitment as marriage, and will be psychologically unprepared for the responsibilities of being married. Of course this is true for many young people. [...]

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Objection #1 to Early Marriage: Economic Insecurity

February 22, 2010

If you missed it, I recently wrote my Defense of Early Marriage. I listed the five main objections that people commonly have against early marriage, with the intention of responding to each of these objections. The first objection I want to respond to is that of economic insecurity. Naysayers often point out that young people [...]

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In Defense of Early Marriage

February 18, 2010

I have been wanting to write this post for a while. But I only got the clarity of vision and incentive to really tackle it when I came across Mark Regnerus’s fantastic article The Case for Early Marriage a few weeks ago (via Halfway to Normal). Suddenly, I was going, “Yes, yes! That’s exactly what [...]

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