It's a historical anomaly for young teenagers to have sex, actually. That was caused by the introduction of cheap cars, welfare expansion, substance abuse and broken homes, widespread abortion, and contraception.
Extremely unfit to have sex outside of marriage and before you're old enough to be a viable spouse. Wealthy people have always tried to delay their children's sexual onset into their late teens and early twenties.
i dunno what to say, go read through genesis again, and come back to me
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/
and the majority of people were poor, and labor was scarce, and necessary
and 200 years ago both you and i would have been among those "fertile poor"
economics only changes the amount of education and opportunities, it doesn't change the underlying biology or timing
Economics actually effects puberty, so no.
if you think that the food and the television and the brainwashing and the secular society isn't artificially reducing fertility then i really don't want to partake in this conversation any further
marriage is passe, apparently, and so is having children because the environment and humans are destroying the planet, they all just want to turn into neutered media digestors and die at a euthanasia center these days
not any wonder, but carry on, it's just about the economics
Both of my grandmothers were child brides and not “poor” or particularly affluent. I do think your perspective here is Eurocentric. This is still happening all over the world.
I consider my Eurocentricism a feature, not a bug.
Where I’m from in the US it’s still p normal for 16 year olds to get married! I’m not sure if it’s 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 Bahá’ís other than part of the abrahamic faith tradition category)
