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

[Tonding]

People just didn't live as long as in our days.
A lot more women died while birthing babies.
So they should be married very young for having the chance to give birth as many times as possible.
You can see this now still in several 3rd world countries.
They just don't have the time to get married late.
When the average age of death is app. 40 you marry at the time you're able getting pregnant.
Several centuries ago women were considered mature when they reached puberty.
Another important point is dowry.
Today, nearly nonexistent in the industrial countries, it was the most common thing just a century ago.
It were always the brides parents who had to pay.

The whole view on this has changed.
The older people got, the bigger the difference in age would be.
You can see it somewhat differently still today.
There are a lot older men marrying young women.
Like 50 year olds getting married to 25 year olds.
But in earlier centuries 50 was considered old as the hills.
So you just substract some years from both genders and there you have the underaged marrying a 30 year old man.

[TxRedMan]

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Just give it up Tx, no marrying a 12 year old for you.

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[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.

[CardSharpCook]

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When the average age of death is app. 40 you marry at the time you're able getting pregnant.

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You know the bible gives a man's alloted years as 3 score and 10. Actually don't remember if this is the New or Old Testament. Point is, people lived a lot longer than is widely believed.

[elus2]

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When the average age of death is app. 40 you marry at the time you're able getting pregnant.

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You know the bible gives a man's alloted years as 3 score and 10. Actually don't remember if this is the New or Old Testament. Point is, people lived a lot longer than is widely believed.

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High rates of infant mortality will also skew these mean life expectancies downwards.

[51cards]

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When the average age of death is app. 40 you marry at the time you're able getting pregnant.

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You know the bible gives a man's alloted years as 3 score and 10. Actually don't remember if this is the New or Old Testament. Point is, people lived a lot longer than is widely believed.

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The Bible says people lived for multiple hundreds of years. Also I know this is true deep inside of my heart.

[ChipWrecked]

Society was more agricultural then. Large families were common because of the free farm labor children provided.

Girls were married off young to get them out of the house, as they couldn't provide heavy farm labor.

Re: Muslim: The Prophet Mohammed married a 6 year-old girl. I guess he waited until she was 9 to do the deed though. Nice guy.

[catalyst]

it's called progress.

[Tonding]

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When the average age of death is app. 40 you marry at the time you're able getting pregnant.

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You know the bible gives a man's alloted years as 3 score and 10. Actually don't remember if this is the New or Old Testament. Point is, people lived a lot longer than is widely believed.

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This has been analysed very deep and it seems as if they were counting in moonyears.
Which means that 1 year in this part of the OT should be counted as app. 4 weeks.

[mo42nyy]

ty cobbs father married his mother when she was 11 or 12. He was a senator and in his 30s or 40s. He had to wait a year to concimate the marriage as she had not reached puberty yet. This was the rule rather than the exaception at the time.