As the old men tended to monopolize the younger women for wives, it was unusual in the past for a commoner to marry until he was 30-35. A daughter was completely under her father's control and infant betrothals were frequent. An elderly man comes to ask to marry a young girl. However, you speak your mind about it also. If it were just form me to say, you would marry him, for elders make good husbands, better than young men do.
Young men are triflers.
The Azande, and related peoples of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Belgian Congo. Evans-Pritchard, E.E., ed. Man and woman among the Azande. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1971. Les Azande ou Niam-Niam.