Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: tutstar
"Said Bolden, "If we were even to read the history of our country, the United States of America, we would find that up to a hundred years ago, marriage was legal at the age of ten."

Legal maybe, moral no. I don't recall any of my American heroes marrying anyone in their teens. Most of them made their start in the world, became successful and then married someone their own age. And only one wife.

3 posted on 06/14/2002 8:08:51 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Shooter 2.5
marriage was legal at the age of ten

Not only that, but a person could be King of England or Pharoah of Egypt at an early age. This was usually followed by being a former King or Pharoah, still at an early age.

9 posted on 06/14/2002 8:16:59 PM PDT by RightWhale
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: Shooter 2.5
I'm happy you feel that way. My own family's genealogical records do not support that view. Out on the frontier girls got married early. Many men had more than one wife, frequently at the same time, particularly Swiss immigrants (as one notable group).

People reproduced as best they could and marriage frequently had less to do with sex than it did with raw survival.

Should you have early Jewish-Americans in the line, you will immediately notice they married their cousins, and at early ages, there frequently being no other persons to marry. Or, if you have Mennonites, you will find the same thing.

Then, there are the American Indians - lucky to find a formal marriage there, even if there are records.

Do not judge the past, particularly the ancient past, by your own modern standards which arise out of a condition of wealth and leasure. In olden times farms needed worked, fields ploughed, cows milked, the elderly in the family needed attendants, and the only way you got those folks was to "grow your own".

17 posted on 06/14/2002 8:25:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: Shooter 2.5
"Said Bolden, "If we were even to read the history of our country, the United States of America, we would find that up to a hundred years ago, marriage was legal at the age of ten."

Shooter 2.5, also consider that those in America up to a hundred years ago that were marrying young were not the founders of a religion. They were probably uneducated farmers and laborers.

70 posted on 06/14/2002 9:36:35 PM PDT by zeaal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: Shooter 2.5
I don't recall any of my American heroes marrying anyone in their teens.

YOu need to read more. Try the life of "Ol' Hickory," Andrew Jackson for example.

He IS a "hero", but he had his ways...

(N.B.: Being played in film by Charlton Heston is a sure way to boost one's stock, though).

119 posted on 06/15/2002 8:33:19 AM PDT by Illbay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: Shooter 2.5
Legal maybe, moral no. I don't recall any of my American heroes marrying anyone in their teens.

You probably need to rephrase that as "early teens" or pre-teens. Of course Muhammad's wife became a teen in her third year of marriage.

124 posted on 06/15/2002 8:43:22 AM PDT by SJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson