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Business people at starting line[/caption]The term starter marriage is defined by Wikipedia as a first marriage that lasts five years and ends without the couple having any children together. Many who are familiar with the phrase qualify it even further by adding that people in these unions are no more than 30 to 35 years of age. In other words, the two words side-by-side describe a short marriage between young people who have no children and little invested in the matrimonial union. Pamela Paul who wrote The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony helped introduce the term to the mainstream and found that too many young couples enter into marriage with the wrong intentions. She discovered many unusual and disturbing reasons why young people tie the knot and following are some on her list: to complete a power couple, as a way of moving out of their parent’s home, a fascination with weddings and the idea that it was easier to marry then it was to break up. These 20 to 30 somethings may have given too little thought to why they were getting wed, but if they later found themselves in a failed marriage they owed it to themselves to give greater consideration on how to divorce.