30 yr old man marries a 13 yr old girl- then and now

[Wynton]

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yes, it was common.

granted, not as common as say, a 25 yr. old man w/ a 15 yr. old woman, but it still happened.


marriages were often arranged, and in a lot of families when a girl was able to get pregnant/menstruate, she was considered able to marry.

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I don't know what you mean by "common." I am sure that the overwhelming majority of marriages did not involve such age differences.

Of course, it's true that such marriages would have been considered more acceptable then.