My father was 32, and my mother was 16 when they married in 1936. My oldest sister wasn’t born until 1940. I was the fourth and last child born in 1947. Today they’d label my father a pedophile.
>>My father was 32, and my mother was 16 when they married in 1936. My oldest sister wasn’t born until 1940. I was the fourth and last child born in 1947. Today they’d label my father a pedophile.
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At age 14, my grandmother married my much older grandfather, bore two sons, and lived a happy life. Perhaps life spans were shorter back then, and people married closer to the age of puberty? Someone else posted that we should not judge earlier times through current day lenses. I think that is wise advice.
When he left the Army he went to University of Alabama Law School and graduated around 1977.
Moore pretty much put his personal life on hold until he was 30.
In the 1970s most women got married right out of high school and if a woman was not married by the age of 29 she was considered a spinster and old old maid by much of contemporary society.
Most people has kids in their mid twenties were terrified of having children after the age of 30 because of the risk of health problems and birth defects
there would have been very few unmarried women Moore's age at the time and having children that old would have been frowned upon at the time.
If Moore wanted to get married, he would have had to look at women 17 to 21 because they were the only unmarried women available