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Originally Posted by dig420
100 years ago she would have been considered a spinster if she wasn't married by 15. I swear some 'webmasters' on this board make a fetish out of moral outrage.
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Actually, the thought that the general population in elder days married at a young age is a myth. Other than royalty, who were often married through arrangements with other families, and the occasional fringe-religion based marrage, the median age for women over the last 200 years has remained in the low 20's.
This is based on statistics from the US and the UK.
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