People didn't use to marry so young, you are confusing myth with the reality.
Gene, All I can say, and history bears out, is that when ‘young’ man and women married ‘young’ the world had far fewer cases of broken homes, STDs, 27yo ‘children’ better at Skyrim than manual labor and about 10,000 other examples.
Now if you want to say such is wrong, you have about 5000 years of human evolution to dispute.
As to the arguement sure to come as ‘we live in a different society”, yes we do. One that lacks the responsibility that comes with being married young and taking that responsibility through ones life.
Seriously think about what you said. Would you go back and history and kick the ass of your own relatives? Because I assure you, whether you wish to admit it or not, less than 2-3 generations would elapse before you would need to brush up on your boxing chops. And since every person on the planet for the past 5000 years could say the same, you’d better bring the gatoraide besides.
Now I understand your revulsion for the idea of mismatched ages. I do. but history is what it is. America was built by men and women married before their 18th birthday. Period. (And not an Obama period, a real one). That’s just reality.
People didn't use to marry so young, you are confusing myth with the reality.
There were plenty of STD’s running around. Perhaps easier to cure with penicillin, but they were out there right along with premarital sex.
I accounted for millennial evolutionary factors. The pubescent divide has certainly changed since a thousand ago. And it’s not antiquated by virtue of inhabiting the South.
As far as I’m concerned, 17 is old enough to smoke, drink, drive, marry, and die for the Country. A person 15 years of age, not so much. And I say this with complete respect to the age groups in question.