however it is a misconception that people married and had kids young in the past. generally it was in your early 20s even in antiquity
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world 15 hours agoCould have been as young as 13, as Virgin generally meant not ready for sex yet.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 15 hours ago
She was called a woman by her cousin who was so old that John the Baptist’s birth was miraculous. She could have been older, not all women married young. But to be considered a woman she wouldn’t have been 13.