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The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.
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OP I understand and agree but realize the average life exptancy was 40 in the 1880’s.
This means If you had a child at the age of 22 you would not see you childs 18th birthday on average.
Quoting: Chrit "Average life expectancy" includes infant/childhood mortality, and women who died in childbirth, which was/is extremely high in societies without modern medicine, such as the 1880s. Average age of death *for people who reached adulthood* was not 40. Assuming you could reach adulthood (and not die in childbirth) you could expect to live about as long as people live now without medical intervention (into your 80s or so).
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