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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Indeed. Here most people are still either getting their education or just starting with work.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I got married while in school and just before starting my internship. Going through school married is awesome.

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The time in life where you’re most likely to experience sexuality and get laid. And instead you spend it exploring sexuality with a loved one. I mean… it could have been worse.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’d say so. At 22 the human brain isn’t even fully developed. Tim and his wife are children acting out some theatrics inculcated by their (almost always) religious community. Then again, I live in an American state that embraces education and critical thinking, so my assumption is ol Tim is from Utah, or some other regressive theocratic place where they’d rather nip autonomy in the bud and tether young people to a prescribed way of life that hasn’t otherwise existed outside of these antideluvian pockets for the last 70 years.

  But I’m probably reading too much into it.

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  • relic_@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This feels like a 16 year old posting a pseudo intellectual argument so they can feel smart.

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    • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Brain is only mature when it is no longer developing, that is, when it is stagnant and decaying”

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lol, ok.

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  • LotrOrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People throughout history have been married way younger.

    It’s only a very recent phenomenon in 90% of the world that people don’t get married by 22. Even go back to the 80s and 90s which weren’t that long ago - getting married under 25 was exceptionally common

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I used to think the women of the past were all married young or spinsters, from reading little house on the prairie and other books. But looked up my ancestors on that Mormon website and was surprised to find that most were 28, 29. Even going pretty far back. This was mostly the US (and this area before unification) and southern Europe though, don’t know that it can be extrapolated. I just didn’t expect it.

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      • LotrOrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Even then would be pretty recent considering human history, and I have a feeling that like you said that’s very narrowed down through both region and religion.

        Though funnily enough I grew up (middle school and high school) with kids from 2 different Mormon families as two of my closest friends, and knew kids from 2 others. Each of those 4 families had a minimum of 5 kids, and each one of those kids as far as I know, both guys and girls, got married by 23.

        But it was normal in Europe to be betrothed as young as 5, and married at 12 or 13 for centuries.

        If you go to the east, Akbar the Great was married off at 9.

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  • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    this sounds kind of… completely crazy to be honest

    also, isn’t the human brain fully developed in most people by the age of 21? or it’s 25, i dont remember. but even if it is 25, 22 is really close. i see no problem in marrying at that age

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It never really finishes developing, and the 25 number is taken way out of context. There’s no nice number here.

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      • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        makes sense. i thought most people agreed to the “18 year olds have their brains developed enough to make life-long choices” thing, but i guess not.

        of course though, there’s variation and 18, just like 21 and 25, is just an estimate.

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lol, solid endorsement

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      • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        thanks i think?

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  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    found Tim

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• CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Lesotho that’s practically middle-aged.

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