大學結婚有理可依 結婚越晚離婚越快

A new study suggests the longer you wait to walk down the aisle, the MORE likely you are to end up divorced。

一項新的研究表明步入婚姻殿堂前等待時間越長，最終越有可能離婚。

Nicholas Wolfinger – a sociologist at the University of Utah – reckons the chances of your marriage ending in divorce increase with every year after the age of 33.

尼古拉斯茠爾芬格(猶他大學的一位社會學家)測算出婚姻最終破裂的可能性在33歲之後會逐年增加。

Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, the sociologist pinpoints an age window between mid to late twenties in which saying ‘I do’ is said to lead to a happily ever after rather than a decree nisi。

這位社會學家利用《全國家庭成長調查》的數據確定了(結婚)最佳年齡是在25歲到29歲之間，在這個年齡段說出“我願意”會使人幸福美滿，而不是最終換來一紙離婚判決書。

Wolfinger said: ‘My data analysis shows that prior to age 32 or so, each additional year of age at marriage reduces the odds of divorce by 11 per cent。

沃爾芬格說：“我的數據分析表明在32歲左右之前，結婚年齡每降1歲離婚概率就會下降11%。”

‘After that the odds of divorce increase by 5 per cent a year.’

“32歲之後，結婚年齡每增加1歲離婚概率就增長5%。”