[Mrs. Don-o]

There's nothing morally wrong with teenage brides. Most of our great- or great-great grandmothers were. They were happily consenting, too.

In some cultures, e.g. where there's no payoff to any education beyond bare litercy and enough arithmetic to run a roadside vegetable stand, it makes absoluete good sense for girls to marry young. For one thing, childbearing is at its safest in the teens --- child-raising, too --- when the young mother's health and energy are at their peak, before diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure and the dgenerative diseases of age set in.

[Yaelle]

I’m not sure this story is describing teen marriage.