western child marriages
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Does anyone have the picture of the US couple of which one is a young girl (I think from the late 19th or early 20th century), with the accompanying text that the husband gave her a doll for her wedding, which get's sometimes shared in history threads on /b/ ?
>>1114031
No, this isn't it...
>>1114031
Still looking
1937 02 14
>>1114031
>>1114058
>>1114072
Found it myself on the net.
Thanks for the other attempts though!
>>1114031
>Thirty-four-year-old mountaineer Homer Peel kisses his bride Geneva on the courthouse steps at Madisonville, Tenn., June 25, 1937, after he was told by the court that he could keep his 12-year-old wife. Peel testified he married the child after his efforts to get her into an orphanage proved unavailing. (AP Photo)
Here's another. Good luck with your project
Those were the days
yes they were
>>1114128
Can anyone provide an actual reason as to why this practice stopped and why it should not be allowed to restart?
> inb4 pedo
>>1114161
Young girls often are unable to make decisions for themselves and it's quite awful taking advantage of their naivety.
>>1114161
because people believe in "progress" and that we've some how come to the "right" moral conclusions.
>>1114161
Really?
>>1114170
You can say the same about women, with a 40% divorce rate.
What made people massively start thinking that child marriage and pederasty is wrong? I'm not saying it isn't wrong but I wonder why and how people realised it.
These practices are still the norm in some countries.
