It’s like watching someone burn their house down. Child = adult. Consensual = nonconconsensual. Rape = marriage.
I guess this world is all yours.
No, actually Laura Ingalls Wilder was over 18 1/2.
Born Feb. 7, 1867; Married Aug. 25, 1885 (he was 28).
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tell us Wintertime, what do you get right? (Do you always export inaccurate opinions & play loosely with the facts?)
She writes about neighbor girls who married at 13 and 14.
Several years ago, Ansel12 posted a LOT of FR stuff showing that in the UK, the average age for a woman marrying between 1851 and 1890 was just under age 26. In New England, the average marriage age in MA 1850-1860 was age 23.6. In Vermont in 1858 it was 21.4. Two other table charts were shown in which one had the average age for 1750-1890 at about age 22 -- only dipping down below that for one decade --1870-1879 (21.7 yrs).
One other table showed the average age for women marrying in 1650 was 20; 1750, 23; 1850, 24; 1950, 20.
Now it is true that in sections of New England, more teens in late teens and early 20s started marrying around the Second Great Awakening (1790 --> early 1800s).
But whatever perceptions people have of those marrying young were simply anecdotal exceptions, and not as common as cultural myths have portrayed them...Otherwise, the avg. age of marriage would have been in the late teens...due to the fact that not as many women as today waited to marry later in 20s and 30s...