Married at 25: Too Young or Too Old?

Charles Murray has an interesting piece at the Wall Street Journal, outlining his five rules for living a happy life. The first recommendation grabbed my attention: “consider marrying young.”

Murray calls these “start-up marriages,” where the couple is broke and unformed, a contrast to the “merger marriages” of 30-year-olds who have negotiated a sort of semi-romantic confederation that makes for dazzling wedding announcement copy but not, perhaps, the kind of bonding that occurs when you are struggling to pay the rent or figure out what life is all about.