Husbands and wives who have married since 1965 are more nearly the same age than those who married earlier. Among couples where the wife entered first marriage since the mid-1960's, 7 out of 10 husbands had ages within a 5-year range of the ages of their wives--less than 4 years older and less than 1 year younger ( cover chart and table 12). By comparison, only 6 out of 10 couples where the wife married for the first time before the mid-1960's had ages within the same 5-year range.