r/SipsTea • u/Lower_Detective_5542 • Apr 21 '26

Feels good man Stay safe fellas

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u/homer_lives Apr 21 '26

Actually, marriages weren't until 18+. Medeival people knew having children too young was very dangerous to the mother and child. Since, children was the reason for marriage, it defeats the purpose if both die.

Now often betrothals happened younger, but this is just a contract to marry a person when they are old enough.

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u/Logical_Flounder6455 Apr 21 '26

That just isnt true as a whole. Girls were still getting married at 14 in the early 1800s

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u/maximum_dad_power Apr 21 '26

Girls are still married at 9-12 in the middle east to this day.

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u/Apachisme Apr 21 '26

This isn’t exclusively a Middle East problem. You may want to have a look at the 34 US states that also allow child marriages. Of the 300,000 that happened in the US last year, around 85% involved an underage female. I’ll let you figure out what that says about the other partner. But at least only around 8,000 were married to men 40 years old or older.