How high age of consent lead to feminism, sexual revolution and mass immigration

Absolutely _everything_ in feminism is connected to high age of consent. It is the only reason why feminists were able to succeed. Without it, feminism can't even exist.
1) As a feminist, you need to enable promiscuity and no fault divorce, i.e. get rid of monogamy.
Sexual liberation aka the sexual reovlution could've never happened without raising the age of consent, because it would mean that minors would get literally bought by rich dudes, they would get fucked by all sorts of low lifes, some adults would pump'n'dump them, people would film them in porn, and society, the monogamous decent men and parents, would rebel against it immidiately. This is why you need to raise AoC and say "as long as they are adult, they can do whatever they want with their bodies".
Now, age of consent DOES NOT prohibit close in age sex. That means girls get drunk fucked and pump'n'dumped by UNDERAGE Chads. Since underage betas can't compete with underage Chads in a school society that operates by jungle rules, 20% of underage guys fuck 80% of underage girls. This is perfectly legal, and you cant stop it, as you cant jail them for it. "As long as they are close in age, its alright, even with a bit of alcohol, they are young and are having fun".
This means that an average non-hideous girl loses her virginity at age 11-14 to some underage Chad and by the time she reaches the AoC of 16-18 - she is already a total whore. She, obviously, can't go back to being a pure virgin, so she continues being a whore. Hypergamy enabled.

If monogamy was still a thing and men were allowed to date younger girls, it would all go to shit. Adult betas wouldn't allow Chads to fuck u-age girls, so most girls would get married early with no chance to fuck around. Also, women wouldn't leave their husbands, because a decent older man can find himself a better younger girl, and an old whore that left her husband won't find shit. Women would still be clinging to their husbands like their life depends on it.

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2) As a feminist, you need to spread your ideology and enable feminist lifestyle.
This is where public education comes in place. Feminism happened right when public education got widespread. This is where you brainwash the girls (and boys) into believing your crap. And you need absolute authority over them, you need government support to spread your agenda (and the government will support you, as you now have the right to vote and hold political office).
It would all go to shit again and you wouldn't be able to brainwash anyone, if the girl got influenced by some higher patriarchal authority, i.e. an adult guy who's courting or already married to an adolescent girl. That girl will completely ignore all the feminist babbling in school, she might even publically rebel against it, because her fiance/husband holds much higher authority in her eyes, she is in love with him after all. Men would just use their right to date and marry adolescent girls, and shape them in the patriarchal ideals, and men would ignore all women that choose the feminist path. Feminists would end up old and single or will haveto settle for low quality males, and that would set an example for younger generations of girls, who would be eager to marry at a young age to get hold of high quality men and secure their future.

Note: the father is not an authority figure during adolescence, that stage of life is meant for you to defy and antagonize your parents, and its natural and socially benificial, so yeah shut the fuck up boomer. A father is especially pathetic in the feminist society with high AoC, where he is with 99,99% certainty married to a whore who bosses him around and alwasy threatens to divorce him (if they are not divorced already), so not only he doesn't have any patriarchal authority - he actually solidified the girls feminist views.

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3) Then you need to establish a social hierarchy that will provide you (feminists) with benifits.
School allows you to do just that. Because you banned adult men from dating adolescent girls, minors are left entirely to themselves. Adolescents compete for other adolescents. To you as a feminist this is beneficial because:
- it creates a social bubble, a society within society, minors have their own space that is entirely separated from all encounters with adults, apart from school and other government sanctioned projects
- as minors lose all direct influence that comes from adult men, they get influenced with everything else: public school (which is now controlled by the feminist government and promotes feminism so that girls would fuck around and study to pursue "important" career), family (which is now entirely matriarchal with a cuck husband and a bitchy emancipated whore of a mother), mass media/culture (which is under feminist control) and of course the other minors (who, being influenced from all the above sources, become degenerate as fuck and follow the feminist agenda).
This is a perfect opportunity to create a literal jungle society of apes, with a strong hierarchy based on brute force and social conformity.
As minors regulate their own society themselves and are forced to coexist in public school, adolescent boys start bullying and beating the shit out of each other for social weight and girls attention. This is where Chads appear, the 20% of men. Chad follows the social dogma, bullies anyone who deviate from it and fucks everything in the vicinity. The rest 80% of guys get shit on in school, have little to no social weight and little/no access to girls. These boys grow into adult virgins, turn into beta cuck orbiters, homos or trannies, and sublimate into hobbies and career.
This is where Chad/beta hierarchy appears.
And you already know how women benifit from it. Chad fucks, you provide, through taxes and directly.

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4) Now you need to globalize the world and spread feminism around it, and you also need to protect your contry from local beta males who might, no, ABSOLUTELY WILL get angry, rebel and quit the workforce.
This is where mass immigration comes in handy.
As local beta males start checking out of the feminist society due to the fact that it provides them no benifits at all and simply parasitises on their labour, as male to female suicide grows as high as 10 to 1 (in official statistics, which doesnt take into account all sorts of "accidents" at work, unsafe driving, drug abuse, crime, etc, and males make about 99% of all that), with prisons getting filled by all sorts of men who rebel against the government or simply go ape shit due to the fact that the government doesnt give a crap about males - WOMEN NEED MORE MEN. They need to replace you, you fucking anime wanking NEET. So they import foreigners, en masse.
Hordes of foreigners come to your country to take your jobs, take your women, join your army and police you. 3rd world shitskins are glad they can swap their shithole for a prosperous country full of money (compared to what they are paid back home) and promiscuous beautiful women that are hungry for something exotic (or can be raped if they are not).
These men get paid a crappy wage (which is still a lot by shitskin standards, but crap by your standards). Taxes get raised to shits, which consolidates money in the hands of the government, which gives it to women and their children (and elderly).
So, if local men reject the rules of the feminist society, they are left with no job (and it doesnt really matter that the shitskin does the job poorly, just import more shitskins) and have to deal with an army and police of foreign men that hold authority over locals.
When the country runs out of white cucks willing to fight and work for women, it will be replaced by foreign men

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5) This is where things might get "interesting", as when foreign men become the majority in the military they might just take control of the feminist government by force. Women will be trying to weed out and replace any men that are anti-feminist, the same way they replaced all the local men, but the shitskins might figure it out and simply stand together against some unit getting disbanded by the feminist government. This will trigger the confrontation, either a civil war, or shitskin men just straightforwardly taking over the government. This in turn can start a global war, with buttons being pushed by little fingers with polished and pink colored nails, and the world will be no more.
I think this is how it ends with feminism and high age of consent. That, or women will be able to slowly convert muslims and niggers into feminist cucks.

Anyway, eventually, with high age of consent European men will be replaced, and thus European people will die out.

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You could have prevented all of it.

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The ones are the right are even still more modest than the protesters today.

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Prepare for the rest of the thread to he ad hominem attacks and PEDO, PEDO, PEDO, PEDO.

ishnala brother

the prophet had it right with his wife

The fact that it's a topic even too taboo for Jow Forums proves there is a whole lot more to it than we're let on.

it's true

>flag
Like clockwork tho.

what the observation and power dynamics make sense

it's already been fubar, so your essay is useless

Great essay OP. Women are the problem, 100%.

Literally not what i said but ok

we gotta get those aoc laws down

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based and red pilled

What the fuck are you smoking?
A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks, girls continue to grow until 24-26. Not to mention girls even as old as 21 are still practically children, have you not noticed this? Girls are fucking retarded until they get older. Why do you want to fuck children?

Girls are always fucking retarded, no matter what age dumbass. In fact most people are- but women even moreso.
>A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks
That ls literally not true.

Great work OP, I agree.

>A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks
Imagine actually believing that

>A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks
are you aware of an entire country by the name of "Mexico" ?

Reported

Reported

Show tits or gtfo.

Germany has an age of consent of 14 and Japan has an age of consent of 13 -- yet both are feminist nations. Explain that.

>Divorce
>Equal Rights
>Fashion Industry
>Consumerist Capitalism
These are all factors as well, if they got married young then they wouldn’t have kids right away but be courted.

>japan
>feminist

>A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks
Tell that to the entire African continent

This charts bullshit and I'm not typing all the comparison points of why.
>A 16 year old girl getting pregnant can have serious health risks
Bullshit, that's some healthiest for cunt be pregnant. Cunt should be impregnated as as soon as she becomes fertile.
>Not to mention girls even as old as 21 are still practically children,
All cunts are basically children. Only difference between a 6yo, 26yo, and 46yo cunt is the 6yo is hot and sexy.
>Why do you want to fuck children?
Because they're not old and fat and gross like old hags.

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How is Japan not feminist? Most women work and women hold political office.

I think instead you should be trying to convince women to go for older men. Trying to move women away from something causes them to resent you. But enticing them towards something else can work.

I've been saying this for years

Women have always "worked"
There is a difference between laboring and being a career woman.
The feminism in Japan is no where like the west.

>There is a difference between laboring and being a career woman.
Yeah, and counts in Japan are all career woman whores.

Friendly reminder that 20% of the marriages in the US where the bride was virgin end up in divorce, and this chance rises to 50% if she had someone else inside her, and this increases for every partner she had to an 80% chance of divorce.

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OP is retarded and thinks if it was legal for little girls to give consent for adults to fuck them that adults would magically want to marry and be with the girls instead of just pumping and dumping like they do with every other girl. Unless there is heavy incentive to marry, and all anti-male marriage problems were solved, maybe, MAYBE youd see some decent older men marrying and raising proper younger girls and having families but you idiots are the same retarded faggots that notice how stupid and NPC like normies and even a lot of "redpilled" people on here are and you just assume all those retarded NPCs would magically stop being greedy, evil and stupid, lust filled NPCs and would magically want to be decent husbands to one underage girl they can love and take care of like you pretend any decent percentage of males would even want to do. You're retarded, age of consent is irrelevant. The problem is feminism (under kike direction) not one specific thing it did like push a higher AOC, retards

Friendly reminder also that the younger the age of first sexual intercouse, the more sexual parteners she will have.

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The Japanese birthrate is 1.43. What exactly do you think Jap women are doing?

May you take a rather quick sit, sir ?

Get toasty roastie.

Nice argument, pedo. You're a sick, corrupt moron who just wants to fuck little girls. You don't want to love and be with one the rest of your life and even if you did youd treat her like a submissive pet, a wife-slave because that's all you think of cunts. Youd just be doing the elites and pedo elites a favor by making it legal to fuck kids, moron. That is exactly what this pedo push is doing.

You’re half-Mexican aren’t you?

>Hit puberty
>pedo
user i-
Were all your ancestors pedos then?

Stop it with the feminist lies. Nature literally designed humans to start breeding when they are teenagers. That is when it is most healthy, when your body is most healthy and young. Women breeding past 25 are already past their prime and past 30 they really shouldn't be breeding.

In a patriarchal society, a girl would be married off at the age of 14 to an suitable male (mid 20s - early 30s) and already have 5+ children by the age of 30. This is how we created Western civilization.

I'm not sick, fucking little girls is natural and there is nothing wrong with that because it was a survival strategy, having a little girl rather than an adult woman has it's advantages, a child needs less food, has more fertile time so you can have more babies with, is easier to carry her on your arms so both can flee when there is danger, is easier to reproduce with her because you're stronger, it's rooted on our genes, that's why they are sexual mature at younger ages than boys, that's why we as men like a shaved pussy rather than a black bush despite it being less healtier. It's only because feminism lowered the AoC that you believe that I'm a sick fuck when probably if it were 100 years ago you would look retarded at even pointing out that I would like to fuck some 14yo.

>it’s an evil government conspiracy to prevent 30 year old weirdos from fucking high schoolers

Traditionalists have always been the biggest degenerates, which is why religious institutions always have so many kid fuckers in them

For fucks sake, it seems that even on Pol there are many newfags or conservacucks that don't know that this is how Western society died. Feminism and the age of consent.

You see, it used to be that society was patriarchal. Fathers would marry off their teenage daughters to suitable and established young men that would have many beautiful white babies with them. At least 5 or 6 by the age of 30. This was how we build up Europe. How the white race rose to prominence, how we gained the numbers needed to take over the world.

Raising the age of consent and feminism, the female liberation, all created the obliteration of our race. They destroyed our birthrates. We are literally a dying race of people. Even without shitskins existing, with current birthrates, we would go extinct. You need more than 2 children for each family to replace their parents in a society. That is very rare today. It makes us a dying race, and feminism is why that is happening. Raising the age of consent was just another step to destroy patriarchy.

Are you saying highschool girls are not sexually attractive?

Yeah, not like there's a conspiracy by Jews to use our own governments and institutions to decimate our birthrates and destroy our Civilization. No sir! None of that going on. We still have high birthrates and will have no issue sustaining our race.

Feminism is the most destructive ideology to ever exist in human history. In the future it should be punishable by death to advocate for it in any shape or form

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OP, I don't think there is anyone on Jow Forums old enough to have prevented this. The only option left is a civil war with RWDS setting society straight. We are doomed, stock up for the boogaloo when the left gains power and uses white knight law enforcement and military, who will be "just doing their jobs", to kill everyone Google has recorded visiting Jow Forums. We are alone and we must kill to survive.

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Stop making everything about age of consent so one-sided. The age of adulthood was also considered way lower back then and the average lifespan was like 40. So it's only natural that people reached adulthood and procreated earlier.

We don't need survival strategies anymore retard. We don't need our appendices anymore either. We evolve and change. What worked once because of constraints does not work now. People in general are all corrupt, lazy and evil these days, with no care or consideration. There is a pump n dump culture. You seriously think as soon as children are made legal to fuck that it won't be another slippery slope to worse degeneracy? You're out of your fucking mind, pedo. Fucking little girls is not okay. We are not animals ran by our instincts, we can and will ignore them for higher paths.

You're a sick fuck because you're a hedonistic degenerate just like normies are. You even admit all you wanna do is fuck little girls. That isn't love, that isn't a family, that isn't good for the girls psyche, that won't make her traditional, that won't prevent her from being a feminist whore it will just accelerate it. The only way OPs argument works is if an overwhelming majority of males would lovingly marry 1 young girl per man and raise and take care of them as a family for the rest of their life. That is not the case as the heavy majority of males are NPC degenerate retards.

blah blah child fucker wants you to lose control over your children earlier than later so they can fuck kids without being killed for it in jail like they deserve

The average lifespan was so much lower because the child mortality rate was so much higher -- not because everyone was dying at 40.

The average lifespan was around the same. It's artificially lowered by infant and child mortality

>sexually mature teenager
>child
Kys

Have kids, whore.

>We don't need survival strategies
It doesn't matter, it has it's roots on our genes retard, we are not pokemon to evovle in one fuking generation, we need thousands of years not only a century.

>Fucking little girls is not okay
I'll give you that, maybe fucking a child is not okay given that it could be abusive, but wanting to fuck a girl is natural.

>You even admit all you wanna do is fuck little girls
Where the fuck did I said that?

>The only way OPs argument works is if an overwhelming majority of males would lovingly marry 1 young girl per man and raise and take care of them as a family for the rest of their life. That is not the case as the heavy majority of males are NPC degenerate retards.
>it worked in the past, but it won't work now
Yeah, sure.

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It's natural for young girls to get fucked by men in any society. That's what puberty is. Age of consent is a social construct.

Watch this dumb roastie's hamster wheel spin in real time.

>age of consent is a social construct
Damn, I'll use this on twatter sluts

>it worked in the past but not now
Yes, exactly. Things change and what was once needed is not. We don't need thousands of years to use the ability to ignore our instincts that we've always fucking had you dolt. We have always had the ability to suppress our instincts and use our sapience to think and consider alternatives, ALWAYS. We need to suppress instinct better is all, and the problem is no one wants to make any effort to do this, you all just wanna let yourself be so you can pretend you're absolved from your actions, "I'm sorry it was my instincts I couldn't control myself I am not responsible" bullshit.

>where the fuck did I say that
Uh
>if it were 100 years ago you would look retarded at even pointing out that I would like to fuck some 14yo
Implies all you want is sex. If you had meant you wanted to marry and raise and love and care for the 14yo you would have, but you just said youd like to fuck one, which means all you're thinking about is sex, and the pleasure and lust , and do not care or consider love or caring or grooming or raising or having a family. That isn't sex, that is reproduction and healthy family units. What you said is hedonistic "sex is just a biological function like farting and means nothing" feminist talking point bullshit line. You wanna fuck 14yos? You're a sick fucking piece of shit. You want to find a 14yo girl and groom and raise and love and care for her, having a family with her? You're a good man. See the difference? How many do you honestly think would be the latter?

Be sure to remind them that rape is also a social construct.

The debate is simply if it's wrong to be sexually attracted to 12 and overs. That is all.

That is not the debate. The debate is the idea that it is morally and socially more healthy for a lower aoc because it would result in more girls being married and not turning into whores which is dumb logic.

It isn't wrong for instincts to tell you a female body in puberty is the best shot for healthy reproduction, what is wrong is acting on inaccurate and ancient holdover instincts like you're a helpless animal. Even roasties know it is normal for men to be attracted to puberty age girls, they just don't like it.

Probably because in the modern day 15-year-olds that have sex aren't having young marriages and starting a family early. They're simply starting a life of meaningless fornication.

Bump for a very underappreciated redpill.

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I like OP's book. Actually a good read.

They are feminist is the correct use of the word. Women who chose to work know full well that they are basically saying they dont want to have kids.

The standard there is that a woman leaves working once she has a kid, as it should be. That is actually feminist, because it venerates the ultimate feminine activity- having kids.

Women belong barefoot and pregnant. Men belong out in the fields growing food with the grandparents.

Like that wouldn't be the ideal situation for you you pedo kike

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Wow, the intelligence agencies are really pushing this shit hard now, hey? Remember the day of the rope. It's coming to a town near you!

Yeah this thread is shit but goddamn that's a great way to trigger a feminist. Definitely keeping that one in the pocket.

Holy shit. This is peak jewish brainwashing.

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The problem with age of consent conversation it's a highly emotionally charged topic, and it is only one of many facets to a societal approach to marriage, family and sex.
I think the idea of taking our current, degenerate culture, and simply legalizing all sex between non-pre-pubescent individuals sounds like an invitation for abuse.
And I would agree.

But it's not as unreasonable in a society that's more foundationally rooted in stronger families, where sex takes place in marriages, and marriages only take place when individuals can prove themselves as individuals of sound moral character to the family members of their potential betrothed.
One might imagine the above society as having some unique abuses that people would face due to circumstances like shitty families. And that may be true, but it's not a question of: will there be abuse? We know abuse will happen because people are involved and some people are quite bad. The real question is: how much and at what cost? Not the kind of approach people like to take with emotional issues, but the correct one.

Consider this reply, ,which hasn't even attempted to understand OP's criticism of the current societal view of these topics, and his understanding of how an AOC change has had a negative consequence.
Let me provide an alternate wording to OP's first post: age of consent laws set so high above age of puberty create a sort of "wild west" situation with all pubescent and post-pubescent individuals who are still under the age of consent. We actually believe we have protected these young people with the AOC laws, when in fact they're free to engage in short-sighted and self-destructive behavior by legally fornicating with other young people. Having sex with 10 guys when you're 13 and they're 25 = bad and illegal. Having sex with 10 guys when you're 13 and they're 15 = bad and LEGAL. These laws have lulled people into a false sense of security and contributed to the erosion of social norms.

Your fundamental mistake is thinking like a man.
>If only I didnt have all this wage-slaving to do, In my free time I would design rockets, or climb mountians or find the cure for diseases, or become a paragon of fitness or shooting.

instead a woman has idle time, becomes rage filled, resentful, and above all endlessly horny, and unable to reduce the drive. I shit you not, 99% of women are ceaslessly horny, and not even the 24/7 stream of abject attention from social media can satiate their mental and physical desire for expending their female currency; sex.

few if any women in the modern day are satisfied 'homemaking' which in their minds, was completely poisoned and shattered by the jew, and turned into an absolutely incomprehensibly filthy life state, one they will avoid at any cost.

The modern woman will shave her head bald, tattoo her flesh, or commit literal crimes to avoid becoming homemaker material.

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>high age of consent lead to feminism

anyone who claims that old men fucking young women, who then have babies, increase the lifespan of the human race are not telling the truth

anyone who has sex with someone under the age of 25 must hang, anyone who is under 25 having sex must be arrested for social disorder, put into a re-education camp, and then put on a list that tracks mentally ill people for the rest of their lives

anyone who has art of paintings, whose colour configuration depicts someone under the age of 25 in a sexual or nude position must hang

anyone who has pieces of plastic or rubber or latex, whose colour configuration depicts someone under the age of 25 in a sexual or nude position must hang

anyone who has masturbation paraphernalia or toys, must hang, they are unnatural, and degenerate

Society doesn't want our young work anymore though, user. Boomers make bank, while millennials are the poorest generation in the history of the United States.

>How high age of consent lead to feminism, sexual revolution and mass immigration

holy shit someone with an IQ over 120 actually posted on Jow Forums. Queue all the SEETHING white Christfags demanding that white women get to fuck HUNDREDS on non-whites into their 40's before settling down with a white beta-provider Christian male so they can have one unhealthy autistic white child together.

tldr: white women should be sold like cattle at age 13. Chads and white men with IQs over 130 should get two free cattle-wives and the first choice at each auction. The rest of white men have to bid on wives and the money goes to fund the 4th Reich and pro-white infrastructure.

Bump

>Jow Forumstheredpill

yikes

have sex

Dilate

Was going to post this. It's one that still shakes me to my core. Probably goes a step too far, but the ultimate question is this:

What is more degenerate?
A) An 18 year old girl fucking the football team
B) A 25 year old man, marrying and devoting his life to a 14 year old.

All those Slate "pedophile profiles" really puts things into perspective.

>All those Slate "pedophile profiles" really puts things into perspective.
How do you mean?

Sorry, I meant THIS puts those Slate Pedophile profiles into perspective. Slate isn't trying to help Pedophiles, it's just trying to deter all white people from marrying/being interested in younger women.

Has there been a pedophile profile ever on anyone-- who wasn't white? I'm sure they can find someone in Britain's grooming gang to come forward.

Bingo

In Germany it's 14 and feminism is a thing

Yes, but nearly every country has it's "mini-society" within the school. Yes, it's 14, but it's not like they are getting marriage proposals at that age. Plus Germany is getting flooded with migrants.

Again, the main thing is that "age of consent" is bullshit, when the rule for centuries was "no sex before marriage". What is the point of "age of consent" if the girl is going to make stupid decisions?

We should change the age of consent to 12 on the condition of engaged/marriage.

Despite everything: MONOGAMY needs to be strictly enforced as that is also integral for a stable society. These "polyamorous" relationships are another trick/slippery slope of feminism.

Damn, this is the most based leaf poster I've seen.

>men were allowed to date young girls
How about just marrying young ladies to young men, and leave the men dating girls bit to nobody.

Because young men haven't a mean to support themselves, as well as the fact that women mature much earlier than me .

This

When young people have sex, it's just fucking. Any future/family planning is stripped away and not considered for a moment. This downfall happened around the 60-70s. Marrying your "highschool sweetheart" now seems like a foreign concept as it's not nearly as common as it used to be.

Good post.

Strong multi-generational families would solve this problem.

As women are so fond of pointing out, girls mature earlier than boys. 16-21 is actually optimum for child rearing

I mean, I would not go as far as to say a 21 year old is practically a child, but I'd imagine 17/18 is a good cut off. You're not wrong though.

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