re: Once Gay Rights Are Fully Recognized...What Is The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

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Where do you get that the majority of people in human history were fine with a 10 year old marrying a 40 year old?

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For most of human history, people were considered "adults" by age 13 or earlier. The vast majority of cultures married of their children, especially their daughters, at very young ages. Literature clearly bears this out for people who don't like history. Even the Mary of the bible is believed to have been about 13.

This idea of 18 being the legal age is a very recent, very western concept. Even today, the majority of human beings alive would laugh at the idea of waiting until 18 to be a legal adult.