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I've had this same conversation but concerning ages when normal things happen. Look at when people got married and had children in 1860 vs 1960 vs 2018. In this
by ewams 8y ago
I've had this same conversation but concerning ages when normal things happen. Look at when people got married and had children in 1860 vs 1960 vs 2018. In this short amount of time people went from having children being normal from 12-14 to 18-30, to 25-40. Yes people still have children at young ages but it is more of a norm to do it later. Just look at all the HN articles talking about that the last couple years. Then listen to conversations when you hear about a 22 year old marrying a 16 year old, things get said like "pedophile" and "gross" and "thats just wrong." Even though not too long ago that was normal.
And that feedback is just from the States. Other countries and regions are different. Maybe here 18 is a magical age where you become an adult but in the far East its 16. In Amazonia it is 13. (I just made those numbers up, I do not know).
Makes you wonder, what is normal or moral to me that is just learned behavior and not really normal or moral?
- pjc50 8y agoThese things aren't just arbitary changes, they're part of the consent revolution and the general post-Enlightentment search to have reasons why we do things rather than just the arbitary tyranny of ""normal"". > 13 This stuff depends on place as well as time. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1021569/Great-Balls-Scandal-How-Jerry-Lee-Lewis-marriage-13-year-old-wrecked-career.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1021569/Great-B...
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoThis is actually inaccurate. You are portraying it as a monotonic trend towards older marriages, but it was actually a local minimum in the 50s and 60s. The average age of marriage in 1890 was roughly the same as 1990 for men and 1980 for women[1]. After that typical marriage ages dropped gradually until the 50s and 60s and then started rising again. [1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-first-marriage-1890-2010 https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-firs...