Pro-life vid of day: Is young marriage an “alternative lifestyle”?
by Hans Johnson
One amusing sidelight to the recent Winter Olympics in Sochi was a tweet referring to an NBC article touting David Wise’s “alternative lifestyle” of having a wife and child at the age of 23. He won the first gold in the freestyle halfpipe skiing competiton.
Though this was just a tongue-in-cheek contrast with the care-free, “gonzo” personality of a Shaun White, the Twittersphere reacted with outrage that “settling down” while young is seen to have gone out of fashion.
Wise, with his wife Lexi and daughter Nayeli, was interviewed by Gretchen Carlson:
The cast of Fox & Friends also weighed in.
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Mar.12, 2014 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Maybe it depends on region? I got married at nineteen and it was normal enough where I lived.
Oh my goodness, I love this family. They seem so sweet.
My husband and I got married when we were both 20. I don’t regret it for a second!
We will celebrate 20 years this May. :)
I think it depends on what you mean by alternative. Personally I don’t think it’s alternative. While I got married at 21 (and baby partner was 19 lol) we got a few sniffs about finishing school and being irresponsible, but plenty of our peers got married around the same age.
I mean really though if you think about it, every lifestyle is alternative relative to something else. Marrying young might be becoming less common, but it’s not reached alternative status yet.
How young is young? To me 19 is young but then again I didn’t get married until I was thirty. My daughter and her husband were 25. I wish they would d have waited until they were more financially stable but so far that are doing fine,
My mother refused to attend or allow my father or siblings (all minors at the time) to attend my wedding because I was getting married at 19.
To her credit afterwards she said what’s done is done and accepted my wonderful husband.
I got A Lot of flack for marrying so young. It was even worse when we wanted to start a family. I grew up in a community where 99% of my high school classmates went to college, so it was unthinkable that I would rather keep a home and raise a family than go to college.
We have been married now 13 1/5 years.
Lol ElizabethG we come from the exact opposite social class, apparently. 99% of the people I know didn’t go to college and most married young-ish, though 19 is on the low end of the scale. I’m sorry your mother wasn’t supportive of your wedding, that’s pretty cruel.
Today is my parents’ anniversary. They have been married more than fifty years. My mom is still in pretty good health but my Dad has a bad heart and cataracts, among other things. They aren’t exactly a picture postcard couple — they fight and argue quite a bit — but they must be doing something right.
I learned a “terrible” family secret, that they “had” to get married — in other words, my mom was 19 and pregnant. I guess in the fifties, being a baby momma wasn’t much of an option!
ElizabethG I’m so sorry! That’s awful! My parents weren’t supportive at first and told me some rather hurtful things and that about killed me. :( Sorry you had to go through that!
Maybe what makes this guy seem “alternative” is because the media doesn’t like covering normal stars – the ones who have families, etc. Becuase it’s not exciting. They like following train wrecks (like Miley or Lohan). Settled down family people don’t make good headlines. To people who work in media, covering a guy like that probably is totally new because they’re used to covering people who are trying real hard to be edgy and cool.