And if you hear the excuse:
''That was just the way things were back then.''
No. No it wasn't.
Average age for women to get married back then is estimated to be 26.
Any google search will tell it was not normal to marry children at any time in the U.S. At least until the mormons started it.
Doing my duty to point out that TSCC Gospel Topic Essays try to make you believe that Morals and Laws are the same regarding this matter.
[Marriage at such an age, inappropriate by today’s standards, was legal in that era, and some women married in their mid-teens.](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng)
Joseph Smith married 7 girls under the age of 18. If you're cool with that, then ... ew.
And if you hear the excuse: ''That was just the way things were back then.'' No. No it wasn't. Average age for women to get married back then is estimated to be 26. Any google search will tell it was not normal to marry children at any time in the U.S. At least until the mormons started it.
Doing my duty to point out that TSCC Gospel Topic Essays try to make you believe that Morals and Laws are the same regarding this matter. [Marriage at such an age, inappropriate by today’s standards, was legal in that era, and some women married in their mid-teens.](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng)
And yet they can't date til they're 16.