Good grief!
Y'all must be children, then, and not know how this world ordinarily works.
100 years ago, a 16 year old girl who
wasn't engaged to a teenaged boy would have been considered on her way to spinsterhood!
And that's here in the United States!
I cannot imagine it being any different anywhere else on the face of the planet!
Children were valuable commodities in the days of family farms.
Regrettable?
Maybe, but we built a nation on the backs of those teenage brides!
Well,
they were on their backs.
My Great Grandmother Mary Ellen Hun (born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1845 AD) had 13 children, beginning with the birth of her first at age 17, and concluding with her last, born when she was 39 years old.
In other words, she was pregnant about once every other year during that period.
Period? 'Hell, what's that?', she asked.
Eric The(Self-Serving)Hun