Both of my grandmothers were child brides and not βpoorβ or particularly affluent. I do think your perspective here is Eurocentric. This is still happening all over the world.
Go read through European historical records and see how old people actually were, when they married.
Marrying your children off young was for the very poor (who couldn't feed them) and the very rich (who used the marriages to seal alliances).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/557962/average-age-at-marriage-england-and-wales/
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I consider my Eurocentricism a feature, not a bug.
Where Iβm from in the US itβs still p normal for 16 year olds to get married! Iβm not sure if itβs become more common or less common over my life time but also I moved to a different state now where 18 is the legal age min for marriage licenses. I was proposed to when I was 17 (I said no tho and people were surprised!)
Oh thank you for this!! Very enlightening to look at both the global as well as more specific European/American trends in this regard! I also have never heard of this group (I know very little about BahΓ‘βΓs other than part of the abrahamic faith tradition category)