Re: India: Three Year Old Runs Marathon Distances

deowll wrote:
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> "spiznet" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >I didn't pick that age to be controversial, I thought that was the
> > minimum age of marriage/betrothal in many non-western cultures.
> >
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> Depends. I keep running into 13 in old texts. The Catholic church went for
> it among others. I think that may have been the most common choice.
>
> I've heard of twelve. The youngest I'm certain was real was 11 but those

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> people died real young. Thirty five was an elder in their culture. Arab
> custom said after puberty.
>
> On a side note some cultures don't didn't have a to young age. Ancient Rome
> for one. Some guy put a monument up to his wife of thirty-five years saying
> she had first known his arms at six and that he would miss her very much.
>
> It is my understanding that girls who get pregnant too young often get
> fissures or tears when they have babies between the rectum and the vagina
> among other things. This is very bad.
>
> Thirteen seems to have been old enough that reproduction is about as safe as
> it is going to get. It is of course much to young to be able to function as
> an adult in our society.
>
> This is more my data than an opinion.
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