Nance Confer

unschoolingbasicsAbout the marrying young thing....it used to be the NORM. If we look
at history, 14 and 15 would not have been considered too young for
marrying in certain cultures.

**Well, if your life-expectancy is 30, marrying young and having a few kids right away makes sense.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_over_human_history


Nance

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Marieke Willis

--- Nance Confer <marbleface@...> wrote:
> unschoolingbasicsAbout the marrying young thing....it used to be the
> NORM. If we look
> at history, 14 and 15 would not have been considered too young for
> marrying in certain cultures.
>
> **Well, if your life-expectancy is 30, marrying young and having a
> few kids right away makes sense.
>
> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_over_human_history
> Nance

As someone else has already pointed out, this low life expectancy is
mainly due to infant death. A more important point to consider in my
opinion, would be that kids started learning a trade at a way younger
age, so that they were expected to be able to have a job at 15, whereas
nowadays kids are considered kids until they graduate from college at
22-23yo. Life is more complicated now than it used to be, because kids
have more choices to make. If at 9yo I start learning to become a
shoemaker and it's obvious I'm going to do that for a living for the
rest of my life, it's a lot easier to be mature at 15yo than if I'm in
10th grade at 15yo and have to decide whether I want to go to college,
or trade school, and if so, what to major in, or travel across the
world, or this, or that.

Marieke



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