Some boys and many girls are not only capable of being married at puberty, but really need to go ahead and start their lives.
“Some boys and many girls are not only capable of being married at puberty, but really need to go ahead and start their lives.”
Start their lives how, exactly? Even if they had the emotional and mental maturity to handle a marriage at age 14, they’d have no marketable education and would be effectively unemployable. And if they start a family right away, their expenses would increase exponentially.
Marrying before age 20 might have been practical before making a living wage required at least a high school education, but it’s not now. And I sure as heck wouldn’t want to marry any of the girls I had crushes on when I was 20, let alone 14!