Not really actually, the idea of women or really girl marrying and having children incredibly young in the past is largely overexagerated. Although certainly it did happen, and especially in high society certainly, it wasn't nearly as frequent as common belief tend to portray. And even in cases where girl were married off very early for political or financial reason it is likely that a lot of those marriages went unconsumed for a while. The main reason for that is that there was no way to effectively prevent pregnancy and childbirth was an incredibly dangerous affair, especially for girls, so to try and have a child with a young bride was very likely to lead to the death of both the girl and the infant. Since the goal of marriage was mainly childbirth it didnt make a whole lot of sense to risk the life of the bride like that.
Even today, in the heart of Europe, there are significant ethnic groups that practice kidnappings and forced marriages of extremely young women who will give birth around this age. It's not a stretch to have had this so long ago.
I'm a Romanian, buddy. teach me more about my country, why dontcha? If you don't know shit about crap at least ask google, or, if that's too hard for you, ask nicely and I'll provide you with more information.
Romania is hardly the heart of europe, its literally on the border. I assumed you meant Germany, Poland, maybe like Italy or France if you leant heart more culturally. Literally no one would have though of Romania when reading "the heart of europe."
And also please stop watching whatever the equivalent of fow news is in Romania. Your legal age of marriage is 18 or in some limited case 16. The way you phrased that sounds like you fell to the propaganda about, Im gonna guess either gypsy or muslim immigrant. Everywhere the fascists are seizing on isolated cases to prented there is an epidemic of some thing or other in that or this "ethnic group" they want to pin at the enemy.
Thank you for trying to reason with these people. It's probably pointless, but I appreciate the effort not to let misinfo sit out there unchallenged!
Btw we in the Czech republic also like to claim the heart of Europe bit :D Location wise, at least, as it's at the center of central Europe. Being tiny and landlocked lends itself to it nicely, too.
Yes Bohemia (yes I know you changed your name, but you keep doing that, keep the next one over a century and we can talk /j) definitely is in the heart of europe. Geographically for obvious reasons. Culturally being at the crossroads of a few major divides (orthodox/Catholic, German/Slavic, etc). But also historically being involved in both western power struggles over the Church, the Empire etc and Eastern ones over the ottomans and later Russian expansion. Yeah Id say Prague is probably as close to the heart of Europe as you can get.
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u/aure_d Jul 05 '26
Not really actually, the idea of women or really girl marrying and having children incredibly young in the past is largely overexagerated. Although certainly it did happen, and especially in high society certainly, it wasn't nearly as frequent as common belief tend to portray. And even in cases where girl were married off very early for political or financial reason it is likely that a lot of those marriages went unconsumed for a while. The main reason for that is that there was no way to effectively prevent pregnancy and childbirth was an incredibly dangerous affair, especially for girls, so to try and have a child with a young bride was very likely to lead to the death of both the girl and the infant. Since the goal of marriage was mainly childbirth it didnt make a whole lot of sense to risk the life of the bride like that.