[OldMissileer]

Roy Moore dated teenagers when he was in his 30’s. It never came up in earlier political campaigns because it was never thought to be a big deal.

Not that long ago many men spent their early years making something of themselves before marriage. Back then a large family was the norm and trying to marry a 30 year old woman then having four to six children was not going to work as it was more dangerous for a 37 year old woman to be pregnant. That meant the 30 year old men had to look for a younger woman in her late teens and those women looked at older men as steady providers for their children.

Nowadays it has been drummed into everybody that more than two children is terrible and having a spouse that is near your own age the only decent thing to do.

[Zhang Fei]

“it was more dangerous for a 37 year old woman to be pregnant.”

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If only it were merely a case of danger. In many cases, it’s impossible, short of expensive procedures like in-vitro fertilization. And even that only has a success rate of less than 50%, decreasing steadily with age.