> it wasn't a crime, and the average marriage age of women around the world was still 14 That’s just as outright false as it gets. Average marriage age was nev

> it wasn't a crime, and the average marriage age of women around the world was still 14 That’s just as outright false as it gets. Average marriage age was never that low going back to the middle ages (ancient Rome/Greece were different). Of course it varied a lot. e.g in Northwestern Europe back in the 13-14th centuries (specifically in Britain, although IIRC Northern France wasn’t that different)it was the most common for women to marry somewhere between 18-22 while in Italy 16-18 was more usual (which is why I assume Romeo and Juliet made any sense to English audiences). A few centuries later mid 20s became a lot more common in Britain (and I think in the US). In fact the average marriage age in the 1960s was lower than it had ever been in centuries: http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Age.htm http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Age.htm