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[+] -14 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

You're joking though. Right? Or are you thinking about wealthy people? The ones who might be written about?

I come from several generations of "prom night" conceptions and "shot gun weddings".

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You can't just look at the age of the mother when she has her first daughter. You also have to consider her age at the time of her last daughter. Even if she has her "prom night" daughter at 18, if she later has another daughter at 36, we're looking at an average age of 27.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Plus talking about the deep past you have to consider infant mortality rates as well. If someone has 10 kids, but only the ones they had after 29 survived then that changes the math.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Read the page I linked. It specifically lists sources that specifically talk about peasants in medieval Europe who on average married later than nobility.

    Prom night conceptions and shotgun weddings are a phenomenon of the 20th and 21st century and would have been considered absolutely scandalous for most of history.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, when we're talking about a 12000 year span and your references don't go past the last thousand, it isn't very representative. Relevant, certainly, but do you think that had much bearing in ancient Egypt? And that only gets us halfway through the time span we're talking about.

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