In January, Dallin Oaks said he wanted Latter-day Saints marrying younger. Six months later, BYU broke ground on 240 married-student apartments. Jess and Hannah just put the dates next to each other.
BYU is tearing down nine 1962-era buildings at Wymount Terrace to build 240 new married-student units, while BYU–Hawaii pours $117 million into its own married-housing expansion on a campus that isn't growing. Six months earlier, church president Dallin Oaks told a crowd in Burley, Idaho that the lowered missionary age for women was meant to bring marriage ages down. Jess and Hannah trace the timeline from Oaks' own words to the ground-breaking, then look at what the data says about the risk on the other side — degree attainment, income recovery, and what it costs a woman to have built nothing of her own by the time a marriage ends.
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