spent the weekend with my granddad, he is 85 now and got married at 25

he started the family in a poor, socialist country, in a depth of the cold war, with no real career prospects or financial security

average 25 year old men these days are 10x better off and don’t even consider starting families

feels backwards 

In society today men want to be financially stable before starting families

everything is expensive, from Medical care to kids education everything is expensive and we've to earn enough to take care of our family before getting married

My father was born into a relatively poor home and understands the struggles he went through and didn’t want that for me. Ensuring he was financially stable before starting a family.
Another thing to look at is that our society has changed, the view and perception is completely different from then