Positive Flashes: Should Marriage Be Timed?

Should Marriage

Be Timed?

Some people have opined

Marriage need not be timed

I disagree because it’s misleading

Everything in life has its time

Failure to recognise this and plan

Will lead to old age discomfiture

Our youthful retirement should be fun

If we marry too early we will lose the joy of our youth

If we marry too late,

We might lose the joy of our old age

Retirement should be fun

Without pressing responsibilities,

But late marriage  will create problems for us at old age!

To emphasize this probability

Let us use the model below with the following standard assumptions

·       We are in Nigeria

·       The current Retirement age in  is 60 years

·       There are five fathers

·      They got married variously  at 25,30,33,35 and 37 respectively.

·       All five fathers began rearing children a year later

·       Each father produces not more than four children

·       They train their children only up to the 1^st Degree

·       The children complete their education on schedule

·       Youth service isn’t part of their father’s care-period

·       Whether the five fathers  
·       are employees or employers,

·       their target is to retire at 60 years.

·       Each of them married only one wife

·       All are responsible father who want to enjoy their retirements.

All things being equal, the bold, blue figure against each name below represents the age at which each father will produce a graduate!

Marriage Model

Age of Father At Marriage	Ages the fathers gave birth to the four children	Age Child of father 1 when  child 1  leaves  Primary, |Secondary, Tertiary institutions,	Age of father when Child 2 leaves Primary,Secondary & Tertiary Institututions	Age of father when Child 3 Leaves primary, secondary and Tertiary institutution.	Age of father when Child 4  leaves primary, secondary and Tertiary institututions
F.1 25	26, 28, 30,32	36,42,50 Read an 8-yr course at the University	38,44,48 Read a 4-yr course at the University	40,46,51 Read a 5-year course at the University	42,48,54 Read 6-year course at the Unviersity
F.2 30	31,33,35 & 37	41,47,51 Read a 4-year course	43,49,57 Read an 8-year course	45,51,56 Read a 5-year course	47,53,61 Read an 8-yr course
F.3 33	32,35,37 & 39	42,48,53 read a 5-yr course	45,51,59 read an 8-yr course	47,53,59 read a 6yr course	49,55,63 read an 8-yr course
F.4 35	36,38,40, 42	46,52, 58 6-yr course	48,54,59 5 yr course	50,56,64 8yr course	52,58,64 8yr course
F.5 37	38,40,42 & 44	48,54,59 5-yr course	50,56,62 6-yr course	52,60,68 8-yr course	54,60,65 5-yr course

Culled from "Positive Flashes" By Yemi Omogboyega.  Need a copy? Please call or SMS 08034465225



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