that married their daughters off young were the aristocracy and maybe some areas in southern europe.
That's what I'm seeing the (((apologists))) post, that because our aristocracy did it then we have to automagically say that it was OK that their camel jockey cult leader did it. I guess he's like their aristocracy, even though his story reads like he was just a gigolo?
AFAIK, younger marriages were popular in the Southern USA.
I cant find the source now but there was a study of marriage age in 19 cent america that I saw and southern marriage ages were only slightly lower than northern ones. Like a year. For women it was like 22. Well past teens . I remember because l was arguing with some guy, maybe it was basedWolf? who was saying the average age was 14 or something and I called bullshit. It was only the aristocrats that married very young girls off probably to secure political and economic alliances. There also seems to be a long history in consensual marriage and love matches vs arranged marriage in europe.
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