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Girls as young as 12 were considered old enough to marry back then. In Romeo and Juliet -- set quite a bit earlier than this it's true -- Juliet was "not yet fourteen" but Shakespeare said, "Younger than she are happy mothers made." Fortunately, we've moved on since then. |
LiberalLesbo the average lifespan was in the 30s so there wasn't a lot of choice. |
Actually dstewart970, that 30's figure is heavily influenced by infant and maternal mortality. If you (and your mother) survived birth and the first 5 years, then a lifespan of 50-60 years wasn't unexpected. If they stopped turning teenagers into mothers the average would have been higher. |
nhubi - Right. That "people only lived until their 30's" always seemed suspect to me. So I looked into it in the 6th grade--in a library back in the olden days!--and found that people now, in a basic "state of nature" (undeveloped countries), usually died around 55. 50 odd years is basically the human animal lifespan. |