The historical norm for girl v.s. woman is drawn at puberty. The mormons might have been an outlier in the US at the time, but until industrialization, most wom

The historical norm for girl v.s. woman is drawn at puberty. The mormons might have been an outlier in the US at the time, but until industrialization, most women were having their first child in their mid to late teenage years. Even today, the median age for a woman having her first child in some poorer countries such as Niger, Bangladesh etc. is 18 years[1]. That means a lot of them are younger than that. If you get a group of ten 15 year old girls from Bangladesh, statistically one of them will be nursing their first child. So let's be careful to judge history by the standards of today. Sure, some of this was mormon practices, but other parts of it was just because these people were doing the same thing most poor peasants on the rest of the planet were doing and considered normal. 1. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Mother%27s-mean-age-at-first-birth#amount https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Mothe... 2. http://www.hips.hacettepe.edu.tr/nbd_cilt35/nahar_zahangir.pdf http://www.hips.hacettepe.edu.tr/nbd_cilt35/nahar_zahangir.p...