June 5, 2024
Women's Age of Marriage
The limit depends on the culture in which one lives. In the past, since a woman's fundamental role was to be a mother, the age for marriage was at the point when one could have children, so it was around 13-14 years. Currently, we believe that a woman should be educated, study, mature, work, and therefore marriage happens later and later, often, I would say, even too late, close to menopause. We have also separated sex and marriage: the rules, however, remain very uncertain. There isn't a strict limit for having sex, just the matter of consent: strangely, consent depends on the age difference. So a girl (or boy) can give consent to a partner who is 18 years old but not to one who is 25 years old: why is that?