v. bodÂ·ed, bodÂ·ing, bodes. v.tr. 1. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft. 2. Archaic To predict; foretell. v.intr. To be an omen; portend: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.
Currently the average age at marriage in the US is 26.8 years for men, and 25.1 years for women. It is interesting that though this represents an increased age for men, it is not significantly higher than the rate 100 years ago. Actually age rates at marriage for men declined from 1910 through 1960.he largest jump in a decade was womenâs average age at marriage in 1980 and 1990. In ten years the age rate jumped from 22 years to 23.9. In fact in the last 20 years, both men and women show a considerable increase in age at marriage.
if you feel you re getting married later than your parents did you re right by about 6 years later on average according to the us census bureau the median age of first marriages in 1970 was 22 5 years for men and for 20 6 years for womenhe age distribution has also changed significantly over the last 40 years in 1970 believe it or not 42 % of women married as teens under 20 and 88 % of all woman were married by age 24 these numbers had dropped drastically by 2009 with only 7 % of women under 20 married and 38 % of woman married by age 24