[cherry_bomb88]

By the way, marriages were good enough for a 12 year old when people living to the age of 50 was old. When at the age of 12 the "children" were working the fields and new how to make a living....I don't know many 12 year olds now that could move out and make a living supporting themselves, except the likes of Brittany Spears, and even then, she couldn't have done it at 12 if it weren't for her enterage of agents & managers.

[DAnconia55]

If you're going to be so predictable, this isn't going to be entertaining any longer.

By the way, marriages were good enough for a 12 year old when people living to the age of 50 was old.

Thus your thesis is : The longer we live, the slower we mature. Prove that. Demonstrate it with facts.

Do you mean mentally, or culturally or emotionally?

Are you asserting there were MORE situations for mental, cultural or emotional growth 1500 years ago - despite being in smaller, rural, less populated environments with no ready idea exchange?

(Really. You're making this way too easy...)

What does making a living for yourself have to do with the age of consent. Unless you're entertaining prostitution as a career choice? Which is fine by me.....