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Age gap between husbands and wives in the United States.
(www.pewresearch.org)
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What's wild is that in 1880 it was probably ~14 yo girls and ~19 yo guys getting married.
..And in 2022 it's probably ~28 and ~30 year olds.
Not so much. Even in the 1800s, it was unusual for girls to get married before they were 18 or so, and the average age for a first marriage was more like 23.
The '14yo child getting married in the 1800s' is the kind of thing that certain conservatives--esp. religious conservatives--like to claim in order to normalize creepy behavior. It happened then--and still happens now in some states!--but even at the time it was very abnormal.
The vast majority of people weren't doing political marriages.