It is better to marry early for it helps you adjust to the new family’. We have heard even liberal parents say this to their daughters. Marrying early was and is still (in a huge section of strata) considered to be healthy and beneficial which makes for lasting marriages. But with girls getting higher degrees and stepping into the workspace more and more opt to marry late in life rather than early.
Shruti, an employee with Bonobology worked for 4 years, earned enough to pay for her own wedding, and married at 29. Interestingly she had an inter-caste arrange marriage too!
‘My mother told me to be financially independent before I tie the knot and I will tell my kids the same”, she said.According to the Census of 2011, Indian women now prefer to get married at an older age than the last decade.
Late marriage is a reality for the woman of today. Even though there is still a huge section of the population considers late marriage, especially of women to be almost shameful,
in the urban and even small-town India, things are changing rapidly. This is welcome news from what we usually get, women make the headlines for the crimes committed against them – rapes
