But you are quoting statistics for the entire United States, which was overwhelmingly Protestant in the 1950's.
Do you have evidence that marriage ages among Catholics and in Catholic countries were higher?
This is the ultimate in trying to conform your religion to the dictates of the world: take a survey of what Protestants were doing,
No, it was a survey of what
Americans were doing. The customs of societies that have laws that are more in harmony with the natural law (for example, abortion being criminalized) are certainly valid to examine, and it's certainly to valid to see how society as a whole has turned away from the natural law, whether it's Catholic or not. In fact, the changes in society coincide with the collapse of Catholicism in western countries as a whole. That's not a coincidence.
and claim that that should be perpetuated forever because "society still had traditional religion."
What is traditional, and will always be traditional, for Catholics, is the belief that Catholic man shouldn't have to be the second, third, or twentieth man to sleep with his never married wife. What is totally non-traditional, and is feminist, is the idea that a man shouldn't care about the chastity of his prospective bride. And it's also a fact of human nature, that unnatural delay of marriage is a temptation to fornication
What, a traditionally Protestant society? What could we as traditional Catholics possibly stand to learn from a culture toeing the line of a bunch of heretical sects most of which were Freemasonically created?
:heretic:
I've got news for you: Protestants who know nothing about Catholicism but who believe and practice traditional morality, eschew drunkenness, fornication, sins St. Paul mentioned, are more Catholic than nominal Catholics who think drunkenness and fornication are no big deal.