Xiaoshaning's Hearsay

On Thursday, I wrote about a Pew Research Center study showing that the median age at first marriage is about six years higher today than it was in 1960, for both sexes.
在周四，我写了一些关于皮尤研究中心对于两性的研究，这些研究显示现在中年第一次结婚的时间比60年代晚6年。

But Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reminds us that using 1960 as a reference point can be misleading.

In 1960, the median age of first marriage was near a record low, having bottomed in about 1956. If you check out the trends going back to 1890, however, you get a much different picture:

“[T]he 1950s,” Professor Cohen writes, “doesn’t represent the ‘traditional’ family.”