[lady lawyer]

The problem with getting into any kind of discussion with you people is that you constantly shift ground. It is pointless, tedious, and frustrating to try to reason to a conclusion, because you constantly respond with non sequiturs. The issue was not plural marriage, but whether teenage girls commonly got married in the 19th century. They did. The mean age was much lower then than it is now, meaning that there were more teenagers getting married. If the mean age was 20, then there were just as many teenagers getting married as women over 20.

I’m done with you.

[pby]

I’m done with you.

You never even started.

And...look at the documentation provided, which not only gives the mean age but the average age (23-24).

The statistics bust the LDS propgated myth that girls regularly got married at an early age in the 19th century. IT WAS NOT THE NORM. IN FACT, IT WAS OUTSIDE OF THE NORM!

And why did your alleged prophet lie about his polygamous marriages to teenage girls and to married women?

The cited truth offends, doesn't it?

[greyfoxx39]

The problem with getting into any kind of discussion with "you people".....

BACK OF THE BUS, INMANS....STEP SMARTLY TO THE BACK OF THE BUS!

[P-Marlowe]

The mean age was much lower then than it is now, meaning that there were more teenagers getting married. If the mean age was 20, then there were just as many teenagers getting married as women over 20.

What was the percentage of teenage girls who were getting married to men who were 20 years their senior who were already married to 5 or 6 other women?

[Lord_Calvinus]

***The mean age was much lower then than it is now, meaning that there were more teenagers getting married. If the mean age was 20, then there were just as many teenagers getting married as women over 20.***

Did you even BOTHER to read the stats posted? In 1850, the mean age for women was 24, 4 years older than in 1950. This means that the age was HIGHER then, NOT lower.

That, in and of itself, pretty much sends Mormon claims that people got married YONGER then down the abyss of self-delusion. You actually need to be intellectually honest and admit that ANY claim that the mean age was lower then is nothing but garbage yanked out of that same Mormon hat that Joseph Smith got the BOM.

In short, you couldn’t be MORE wrong if you tried. Hey, it sucks, but don’t continue to hold onto the delusion.

[Elsie]

The problem with getting into any kind of discussion with you people is that you constantly shift ground.

It's hell when it comes back atcha!