• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    In Western Europe at least back to the early medieval period it was common for anyone who wasn’t nobility to have their first child around 22. The younger you are the more likely you’re going to have serious (fatal, back then) complications. It was the nobility that was marrying off barely pubescent kids.

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      20 days ago

      It was the nobility that was marrying off barely pubescent kids.

      Same as it ever was.