Thank you for the fun date! It was a drama I probably wouldn't have noticed without the blind date, so I'm happy I had possibility to see it. Not a perfect match though, so we are not planning to meet again in future.
Thank you for an interesting and thought provoking article!
As far as I know, shorter life span is actually not very good way to explain why people married young before. Better explanation might have been the bad financial situation which forced families to marry their daughters away when they were still children.
Short life expectancy numbers tell more about infant mortality and child mortality rates than the average life expectancy of a person who survived her or his childhood. Those who lived, often lived long enough to have children without need to marry young. Many lived until old age, even 70-80+ years.
I'm interested in genealogy, and while reading old parish registers I have noticed that was extremely common that women got their youngest children when they were around 38-45 year old in the 18th and 19th century, at least in the Northern Europe.
As far as I know, shorter life span is actually not very good way to explain why people married young before. Better explanation might have been the bad financial situation which forced families to marry their daughters away when they were still children.
Short life expectancy numbers tell more about infant mortality and child mortality rates than the average life expectancy of a person who survived her or his childhood. Those who lived, often lived long enough to have children without need to marry young. Many lived until old age, even 70-80+ years.
I'm interested in genealogy, and while reading old parish registers I have noticed that was extremely common that women got their youngest children when they were around 38-45 year old in the 18th and 19th century, at least in the Northern Europe.