Thanks. You are the first person I’ve seen who has explained the relationship between male/female human animals. It seems that the Lord made women’s child bearing age begin around 14 years (some younger), and young men become capable of pro-creating at around the same age. Parents try to keep their young under their guardianship as long as possible. The drive to procreate is impossible to stop of course. So men compete with each other to cull out their preferred female. Historically, they are competing with older established men who can offer financial and protective security. The helicopter parents have been winning against the natural selection process, which has prevailed since the beginning of time. I dated a lot of young boys from age 13-14 but at 19 I married a man 8 years older who was positioned to “take care of me.”
When my grandmother married she was a teen - I think 16 but definitely an even number, in my recollection, and not 18. She married a widower whose son survived the illness which carried off his mother and sister. I don’t know how old my grandfather was, but it obviously would have been 25 at the least.I read about Ireland that the reason they were known as “the fighting Irish” was that men didn’t marry until they inherited their fathers’ farms - and thus, functioned pretty much like adolescent boys into their 20s and beyond. And in those circumstances the men would - very ordinarily - marry women ten or more years younger than themselves.
It would certainly seem to be a recipe for the women to routinely be considered immature, when compared to husbands so much their senior in age . . .