>
> What about 50 year old women marrying 18 year old
> men? If this isn't
> normal, why do you think not?
>
> Joanna
>
Well, the sociological reason is probably that 1) Russia is a peasant country in terms of mentality, therefore 2) the man is supposed to be a provider and the woman is supposed to cook and clean and whatnot and 3) older men are more likely to earn more money and younger women are physically able to have more babies. Especially since, in the Soviet era, your salary was based on the length of time you worked at a job, not on your performance, and since most people worked at a single job their entire lives, the age : salary correlation was 1 : 1. Also, since you needed to stay in a waiting list for a decade or more to get an apartment, the older man is going to have that and the woman gets an apartment out of the deal. Ditto for cars.
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