This just came to mind because I genuinely am just curious, but off the top of my head, 'if she bleeds' was never something that a predominantly white society practiced, not even the medieval period.
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The vast majority of documentation through history involves the noble classes, because who would write about fucking peasants? Nobles engaged in all sorts of ridiculous bullshit regarding politics and behavior the rest of society wouldn't even consider. So whatever we know historically for most nations is like taking Epstein as a sign of what all Americans were doing.
Given that puberty in girls has been trending earlier as industrial society progresses, its almost a certainty that "she bleedin'" was a mid-teen thing for most of history anyway. An age when most boys were already working actual jobs, if they weren't years into hard labor on the family business anyway, because the concept of adulthood were usually based around them. So they wouldn't be some innocent "child wife," but more of more world ready highschooler.
Not to mention that for most of white societies, the father had to give his daughter away. Most of them weren't gonna just toss her out to the first pervert that showed up unless he was rich as shit. So it doesn't matter if you could legally do it, you still had to manage it and most people who talk about it lack both the social skills and the capital to have ever done so.
Good analysis of what's going on here. So many people, even on these forums, get caught up debating "what's the right age?" that they entirely miss the real world issues that they're attempting to define. They approach it from the perspective of regulating a recreational activity rather than one of the most deeply significant issues which defines the course of most people's lives. It might be easy to imagine a consensual one night stand, while missing the harm done by arranged child marriages.
Edit: I actually have a pet theory that the focused debate on age is deliberately ignoring the base reason we care: that much older people can easily mislead younger people due to their significantly greater experience with life as a human. I feel as though, if we were to have a significant discussion about this type of abuse it may threaten some significant tech companies who take advantage of the same lack of worldly experience to addict and entrap youth openly. A very significant portion of which does, in fact, prey upon youthful sex drives.
Church books should have records of birth, marriage, baptism and death. Those dates should tell us at what age people married and had children.
A lot of this is what I was attempting to allude to in another comment. In many respects a lot of the dynamics are not that far off from relatively modern Western cultures. Especially with regards to whether or not a marriage proposal or arrangement is deemed acceptable or not by the father. The practical and emotional concerns of a father have not exactly changed a lot in the last 1000 years. (Clownworld aside).
While obviously there were probably cases where things were rushed due to financial and/or political concerns, I imagine that most involved would likely not be eager to arrange something unless a young woman had gone through sufficient physical development to manage through ordeals such as childbirth.
And I wouldn't be surprised if this sentiment was at least somewhat shared between both nobles and people of lower classes alike.
I think all that's really changed is we don't need to use daughters for alliances and political marriages much in the Western World (places with arranged marriages do, but they've had their own unique history regarding it).
So there is even less reason to give up your daughter from an early age to a random guy, especially as dowries aren't really "in style" so anyone offering to buy her comes across as massively suspicious.
Nope. Had a friend have a baby at that age. It's considered dangerous because women's hips need to widen to be large enough for the baby to be able to safely pass through. And , it's also pedophilia fool.
You can look at the not potato famine. Even immigrating to America didn't save them. The girls were malnourashed, and they didn't mature properly. I had a history teacher that put so many of these death certificates on the projector. The ages were much lower than we are used to seeing... Like what you're suggesting to be clear.
Pregnancy is a medical condition, and it's very serious for some women. I died both times I gave birth. THEY USED THE FUCKING PADDLES when I gave birth to my oldest son, and that shit fucking hurts! You have no idea what you're talking about. I also had Rhesus Syndrome with my second child. Imagine being allergic to something that's inside you, but you reeeeeeeeeeeeally want what's killing you.
Janet Jackson had her first baby at 52. That's considered a geriatric pregnancy. Even in the same family girls don't start menses at the same age btw. My big sis, and lil sis started at 9. I started at 13. That means my lil sis had her mense before me. Pregnancy has a Goldilocks zone.
When men participate in raising kids, they suddenly want less kids.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/paid-paternity-leave-study-spain-men-fewer-children
https://www.newsweek.com/fathers-fewer-kids-paternity-leave-study-1430136
As an aside the pedos won't need actual children due to the pubity blockers that got trendy. It's been going on long enough that technical adults have the physical, and mental ability of children.
You clearly fucked up your algo with this nonsense.
Yes those are all things I said. You don't need to repeat them back with extra sperg.
Good show that you are on a script, really beating that paid shill accusation.
Gee, wonder why.