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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]

In the 1800s and early 1900s, in the US and Europe, the typical woman had her first child in her early 20s. She would bear children, one after another, until around 40. After the industrial revolution had really taken hold, when so many children weren't needed, she stopped have children in her early-mid 30s. It was like this until around the 1970s.

In the Middle Ages, it's more mixed than you'd think. People recognized that the best time to have babies is in the early 20s and wouldn't necessarily want to give up a teenage girl's labor. Sure, preganncy could be in the teens but also very likely for the first pregnancy to be when the woman is in her early 20s.[/quote]

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