And those who marry earliest tend to have made the worst marital choices.
Do people ever elope when their parents do approve of their marital choices?
Some women, Hodson points out, "are quite straightforwardly commercial about their marital choices".
Another marital choice gone sour and she was back on welfare.
A woman's marital choice creates a storm in a European dynasty.
Bloch points out other elements such as imposition of a father's unhappy marital choice, the lady confined to a castle, the hiding of an illicit passion.
Neither does George Eliot's Dorothea make the best of marital choices.
Molly and her older cousin, Sophie, the two young ladies whose marital choices provide the plot for the book, live in a world of hunt balls and leaking ceilings.
Their mixed ancestry eliminated the darker and poorer castas from the "desirable" marital choices for biologically unmixed Indians or Spaniards.
It was a tradition in the Unorr family that older generations ruled the younger in matters of marital choice.