Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Hi. History nerd here. I'm seeing some creepy takes on adults having sex with teens as historically normal, and that's only kinda true." -- Kristen Hanley Cardozo, 2017-11-18

"Yep. I've somehow traced my family tree back to 200 AD, on average even in the dark ages, most women married at 18-25 with a 3-5 yr age gap. Don't know if the woman was older, but marriages where both parties were born the same year were even more common than like 8-10 yr gaps.

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"And a thing I learned about recent marriage ages? Before social security, my female ancestors often only aged 9 yrs between censuses ;-) So the age that their obituary says they were born and the age the first census says they were can be off by up to 5 yrs. On the other hand my male ancestors would age sightly when wars started! So men born 1899 would be 11 in 1910, then become 17 in 1914, and 45 in 1940. So one specific couple who were really born the same year ended up claiming birth dates about 10 yrs apart by the time they died!"

-- Rachel (@TheNobleWoman), 2017-11-19 [alas, I've forgotten whose link I followed to find this]

For folks lighting the first candle tonight, happy Chanukah!