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[quote=Anonymous]Both of my grandmothers had their first child at 14 and were divorced by about 20. Big difference in how they got there and what it did to them.

My sociopathic paternal grandmother was raped at 12 by a man in his 40s who had a lot of power in the community. Absolutely no recourse for her legally. No attempt at any counseling. She had to stop attending school. She was placed as a domestic in the home of another man who had sex with her at 13. She gave birth days after her 14th birthday. At 16, she married a man in his 40s who fathered two more kids on her within 18 months. Midway through WWII, he was offered a lucrative job in the Deep South and abandoned her with a toddler and a newborn.

In contrast, my other grandmother fell in love with a boy. They got pregnant. They got married. It didn’t work out, but it wasn’t abuse and she had a huge amount of family support. The divorce was a bit stigmatizing, but he died within three months and many people forgot she was a divorced and not a widow. She went on to marry a minister.[/quote]

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