#average age at first marriage for women was 20 in 1940! to men like 2 years older!

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“This 98-year-old woman has had a total of 622 ‘descendants’…because at age 16 she married a 50-year-old widower with 10 children, SOME OF WHOM WERE OLDER THAN HER AND HAD THEIR OWN KIDS ALREADY, and then had 13 more children by him, but news outlets report on it like a cute human interest story”

sounds like an SNL skit where the “straight man” character gets increasingly disturbed while everyone else acts happy and charmed

And. Fucking. Yet.

#current events #child abuse #I don’t know if it was CSA because I can’t find when her first bio child was born but uh #seems likely #her descendants seem to think it’s fine and was normal back then #which. no the fuck it was not #average age at first marriage for women was 20 in 1940! to men like 2 years older! #huge families made newsreels! #teen marriage HAPPENED more but it wasn’t the NORM #also that was usually to OTHER TEENS #nobody wants to talk about how she ended up marrying this old creep in the first place