Actor Kirk Cameron’s son James Cameron is thinking seriously about marriage, but he isn’t setting an age deadline for the decision.
“So, I don’t think there’s an age that people should be getting married or shouldn’t be getting married,” James said on his dad’s podcast.
In a father-son conversation released Oct. 7, the two discussed the financial worries and questions about commitment that surround marriage. James returned to a personal concern at the close: he wants to make wise choices and honor God rather than assume he can know the future.
The episode began with a less weighty family exchange. James told his father he had found a STAR TREK shirt while thrift shopping and had to get it for him, giving Kirk a chance to revisit his childhood affection for the series before they turned to marriage.
Kirk, known for GROWING PAINS and FIREPROOF, describes himself on his official biography page as a Christian, husband and father of six. Here, James brought questions he was hearing among his own friends into the conversation.
“And even looking around in my own life, I have friends who are asking these same questions,” James said. He described friends wondering why marriage matters and how a covenant before God relates to a formal wedding and legal recognition.
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James also raised the pressure of providing for a household. He described the desire for financial security before marriage and the worry that supporting a spouse and future children can make the decision feel daunting.
Those concerns have appeared in research, though they do not explain every unmarried adult’s circumstances. A 2019 Pew Research Center report found that two-thirds of cohabiters who wanted to marry someday cited their own or their partner’s finances as a reason they were not engaged or married.
Marriage patterns have shifted over the past generation. Pew’s report published in 2024 found that 29% of Americans ages 25 to 29 were married in 2023, compared with 50% in 1993.
For James, thinking about marriage involved what a person can give a spouse, not simply the benefits that person hopes to receive. He urged looking outward toward service rather than making personal pleasure the center of a relationship.
“And it’s not just something about us. It’s something that we can give to that other person,” James said.
Kirk discussed marriage as a lifelong covenant before God. That understanding of lasting union draws on the marriage teaching in Mark 10:6-9, where Jesus describes husband and wife becoming one flesh and warns against separating what God has joined.
“I think the two biggest decisions you’ll make in your whole life is how will I respond to the gospel and Jesus and who will I choose as my mate?” Kirk said.
“These are decisions that will then impact the rest of your life, your family, and your eternity. So, choose carefully,” he added.
James said people his age who wanted to marry were thinking carefully about these questions because they had seen the consequences of choosing unwisely.
James closed by saying he could trust God to guide his steps without knowing what would happen next. His qualification remained plain: he was not prescribing an age to marry, even as he encouraged taking the choice seriously.
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