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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again I say, 100 years ago it was probably normal for a girl to be married with at least 1 child by age 13 or 14.[/quote]

No, it never was. Only among the elites was it something that was done for inheritance and alliance reasons. Rare among normal folks.[/quote]

Wrong.  Working class people needed free labor for their farm or business and knew that at least half their children would die in childbirth or as infants so they popped them out early and often.[/quote]

Well, you're wrong.

Average age at first marriage:

Year	Males	Females
1890	26.1	 22.0
1900	25.9	 21.9
1910	25.1	 21.6
1920	24.6	 21.2
1930	24.3	 21.3
1940	24.3	 21.5
1950	22.8	 20.3

https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-first-marriage-1890-2010

Men married relatively late because they needed to establish themselves and to be able to support a wife (get the farm, get established in their careers/professions/jobs).

Truly young marriages such as mid-teen years was always rare. And like today, more common among the very poor / lower elements of society. You did get more women getting married at 18/19 but under 18 was pretty rare.

I know we're talking about pregnancies rather than marriages but out of wedlock pregnancies in the US and the western world was unusual not the norm by any stretch of the imagination. So you can infer from the data that most people had their first children in their twenties.

The low marriage age for men in the 1950s-1970s was very much an exception and largely due to economics of the time allowing people to marry and settle down young. The rapid rise in the marriage ages since the 1980s is also largely due to economics. Ok, this is going off topic.

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