It was tied in with the marriage laws. It was more commonplace at the time for families to "marry off" their daughters to say, a wealthy farmer the next town over. However, they typically did NOT procreate until she reached child bearing age.
Quoting: Constant Parad0x Just another thought.
If someone argues that consent to marriage as a 10-year-old is somehow
less significant than consent to intimate relations, I don't think that's make sense.
It's a life-altering commitment either way.
It seems the delay you described would be for biological reasons (physically safer), not emotional maturity.
But again, I don't see how age of consent laws were "tied in" to marriage, considering they
didn't apply under marriage.
Not wanting to argue tho
Well.. I actually wrote a response addressing this but got banned and subsequently unbanned. Asked for a reason but wasn't told why. I don't *think* I hit any of the banned words or said anything particularly ridiculous... but who knows without being told.
I'm not really saying you're wrong per se... but I think its wrong to judge the actions of a prior era against current standards.
You have to understand that at least in the 1930s people were far spread out and few in between. The standards were different. That was a point I was trying to make to you about my grandparents. I'm also aware that I had at least 2 aunts who were married off to neighbor farms in the 1700s when they were 13. Both of them did not have children until they were 17 and 18. I guess what I'm pointing out is that there were other reasons for marriage back then than just sex.
Circling back to my grandparents... I happen to know the reason they consummated the first child was that they were already dating, my great grandparents were aware of this, and my Grandfather was going off to war. If you put this in context, its kinda reasonable. That's why I'm saying, you really cant right out judge this without evidence.
Is 10 too young at any rate? I would say yes, but when the marriages were happening back then, they were not necessarily having sex with their wives at that age and I'm just pointing that out. Like I tried to say earlier, I think to some extent there is an agenda to paint Whites in a bad light.
There is another group that pretty consistently still engages in these practices and not for altruistic reasons. I'll leave it to you to decide who they are.
