According to Alicia Taverner, owner of Rancho Counseling, “there is a certain maturity level that a person reaches where they will likely succeed in their marriage, and it usually happens after age 25.” “I see couples in my practice who are about to get divorced because they got married before they realized who they were and before they experienced the “singledom” that comes with being in your 20s.” The frontal lobe is the last area of the brain to develop, and it may take until a person is 25 or even 30 years old. Decisions taken before the age of 25 can be troublesome since they are made before a person’s capacity to balance moral and ethical actions is completely matured. In addition to being more mature, couples in their 30s also typically have more education and a more stable financial base. (Having financial difficulties can be a key cause of divorce.) Unsurprisingly, a study conducted by the Institute for Family Studies using data from the National Survey of Family Growth from 2006 to 2010 revealed that the probabilities of divorce decrease by 11% for every year of age at marriage before the age of 32. But, according to earlier research, the likelihood of divorce rises by 5% annually after the age of thirty-two. Instead of decreasing as it has in previous years, the divorce risk for those who married in their 30s has flattened since around 2000.
