[little jeremiah]

There is a vast gulf of moral difference between animalistic and exploitative sex between underages kids, and a young teenage girl marrying. As people have mentioned before, and on this thread, in previous generations girls often married by their mid teens, usually to a young man a bit older than them. Some of our grandparents were these ages.

Marriage and illicit sex can't be compared.

[MineralMan]

"There is a vast gulf of moral difference between animalistic and exploitative sex between underages kids, and a young teenage girl marrying. As people have mentioned before, and on this thread, in previous generations girls often married by their mid teens, usually to a young man a bit older than them. Some of our grandparents were these ages.

Marriage and illicit sex can't be compared."

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But they can often be linked. My maternal grandmother was married at age 14. Six months later, she gave birth to my mother and her twin brother. They weighed almost 8 pounds each.

You do the math. Yes, there were lots of early marriages. And many of them involved the discreet use of a shotgun.

[wagglebee]

I also agree with what some other people have said here, I don't think some teenage boy "feeling up" his girlfriend (of the same approximate age) is a crime that needs to be reported to the authorities.

[Nowhere Man]

There is a vast gulf of moral difference between animalistic and exploitative sex between underages kids, and a young teenage girl marrying. As people have mentioned before, and on this thread, in previous generations girls often married by their mid teens, usually to a young man a bit older than them. Some of our grandparents were these ages.

Marriage and illicit sex can't be compared.

Good points. Although I might havr touched upon that in my last post, you hit the nail on the head. That was a common thing because most men didn't marry until they hada plot of land, a good career or settled in a trade of some sort so many did not marry until 25 to 35 to a much younger wife. They did this so they could be settled to support a family.