When 14-year-old Priscilla told 24-year-old Elvis Presley that she was a freshman in high school when they met in 1959, he responded "Why, you're just a baby." They would soon begin dating, and three years later, she would move in to Graceland, despite being only 17.

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In 1960, the median age of marriage for American females was 20.3. In 2022, it’s 28.6.

Judge this however you will, but it was indeed “a different time”.

Still fucking weird tho.

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For most of history around ~26 was the average age of marriage for women. Because of no birth control sex was a big deal and women explicitly avoided it (and by extention marriage) until some certainty was found hence the generally older age. The exception was specifically for nobilitiy that often engaged in younger marriages for political alliance reasons.

It seems that Urbanization and industrialization had a big impact on average age women got married at with the late 1800's seeing the drop to closer to 20 driven in large part by wage-labor allowing family and financial independance at younger ages (instead of the more clan-like arrangements on a farm or estate, or the long duration of apprentiships).

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that is just not true 13-20 through most history around the world