It wasn’t the norm, that’s a myth. Child birth is dangerous, having children that young was even more dangerous. Children of rich families were married off young for political reasons, but even they waited with having children until they were older.
Do you have a source? I was always told that Roman patriacians were allowed to marry 12yo girls, but most girls married at 16, and that puberty was around 14-16.
Probably because when it was written, marrying off kids and having them reproduce pretty much as soon as they hit puberty was the norm.
It wasn’t the norm, that’s a myth. Child birth is dangerous, having children that young was even more dangerous. Children of rich families were married off young for political reasons, but even they waited with having children until they were older.
Do you have a source? I was always told that Roman patriacians were allowed to marry 12yo girls, but most girls married at 16, and that puberty was around 14-16.
And they still study that today… ☹️