By Josh D. Simon

Ask any divorced person or experienced family lawyer, and they’ll tell you that every divorce is a distinctive story -- because the multitude of details that cause a marriage to breakdown are always specific to the people involved.  

However, author Terri Orbuch, PhD has uncovered research that could take many of those many details and, well, throw them out the window; replacing them with a central, unifying, “Mother of all Causes” kind of thing: age.  

Orbuch believes that folks who marry too young – that is, before their mid 20s – generally lack experience, education and personal growth that makes a marriage work.

“Educated people tend to be more confident about who they are and less willing to settle for a partner who doesn’t meet their standards,” Orbuch told College News. He also added that people in their mid-20s have developed a fundamental financial IQ that helps them avoid money-related battles with their spouse. And if this seems like a relatively minor point, consider that battling over finances is a leading cause of divorce.

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