I've heard him speak before the Tennessee Legislature and thought he was spot on with some of his arguments, so this surprised me when I came across it this morning:
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My stepfather, who raised me - his mother was married and pregnant the first time at 13. She had 3 miscarriages before she had her first child.
He was out of the house and on his own at 13 yrs old as well. He joined the service as soon as he could [younger than 18] and served in Korea.
My husband's father was out of the house and on his own at 14 yrs. Because he'd had scarlet fever and a damaged heart he could not join the service, but he found a farming family who put him up in their barn in exchange for farm work.
Thinking was different in the not too distant past. I know half of my Irish ancestors were worked to death by their fifties.
I'm not supporting marriage before 18 in any greater context than the fact that it used to be extremely common.
13 was still way too young, but 17...not so much.
My own mother married and had her 1st child at 17, and her 2nd [me] at 19.