And if there had been a medical emergency NO ONE would have been there to authorize care... and that’s the least of it. Baby sitting is for a few hours. The folks left for several days. And pardon me it is a loooong time ago that people married when they were 12 or 13 ( certainly not in the modern era and less so even in the 1800s)
“And if there had been a medical emergency NO ONE would have been there to authorize care”
In a medical emergency authorization is not needed.