Up until about eighty years ago it was perfectly legal and even normal in most places for older men to marry 13-17 year old girls. Checking my own family tree I see most of the women were married at 15 to 17. What happened that made this socially repugnant? Lesbian feminists and socialists are quite frankly the source of every reason why most young women don't marry young anymore.
My wife's family tree reflects this as well. I suppose if Mandy's opinions were correct, of the 6 women I know of in her lineage, all of them married between 14-16, one married at 17, and her mom married at 18. I suppose those women who married young, had good lives, stayed married and raised families were all wrong.
Because you can't do both, no 15 year old is ready for marriage. No one should be able to decide that a 15 year old is ready for marriage, not the 15 year old, not the father, not the potential husband, no one. Just leave the child alone. I'm sorry but this is so far into left field for me.
This is most of human history, the idea that those young women aren't "ready" for marriage is a load of leftist/feminist modern bull hockey.
I for one think the VAST majority of women 15-22 aren't mature enough and trained in good character to be a wife and mother. But saying none of them are capable of being married is frankly the dumbest thing I've heard all day. Yes certainly most 15 year olds are not ready for marriage. But to say all 15 year olds are incapable is just patently false.
My wife is amazing, and she would have made a fine wife even at 15.
In fact, at 15, both her parents and mine were suggesting we consider each other. Due to cultural conditioning, we both thought the other was outside a rational age range. But we were put on each other's radar as a possibility. So we both independently and without knowing the other had been gently directed to consider the other person, we both started paying attention to each other's character.
Fast forward a year, and I was willing to wait a few years to marry her. She didn't want to wait that long. I married her when she was 17. (Legally) We're 9 years apart in age.
So we decided on a formal "courtship" relationship. Basically chaperoned time to get to know each other without temptation. We did nothing more than hold hands and gave each other a hug as a greeting or goodbye. Our first kiss was right after I proposed and she accepted. And nothing else more serious than light kissing happened until our wedding night.
We're wonderfully happily married, and she decided she wanted to marry me when she was still 15.
In my wife's family line there are two women who married at 14 and 15. One of them just buried her husband of 53 years, they had dozens of grandchildren and great grands. Loved each other their whole lives and had a great marriage.
Please just temper your stance and reserve your vitriol for those who are actually predators. A fifteen year old is certainly capable of marriage, and being a Godly woman for decades.
