Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer
Brides and grooms are growing older, and Betty Friedan probably shares some of the responsibility.
"Much of it is women deciding to start careers first. It's certainly connected to feminism, 'The Feminine Mystique,'" said Robert Wells, professor of history at Union College, citing Friedan's epochal 1963 study.
One apparent byproduct of the Women's Revolution has been the steadily advancing age of marriage in the United States - now the highest in a century. The social reverberations of such a shift include slower birth and divorce rates, changing sexual behavior and new real estate markets.
In 1890, the …
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