Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago

[Mariana]

19. My great great grandmother was 14 when she married in 1874

But she lied when they filed their intention and told the town clerk she was 18. Her husband wasn't in his 30's, either. No one else in my family tree married younger than 17, and most of the women were past 20. I understand it was more common for girls to marry very young in the South. All of my people were in New England and Canada.

In 1764 an ancestor of mine remarried at age 68 to a woman about 32ish and had two children with her before he died, when the younger of the two (also my ancestor) was six weeks old. She hand been widowed with three young daughters. His older children, that he had with his first wife, were in their 40s. Even so, she was a grown woman. This is very different than a 30 some year old man chasing 14 year old girls in 1978.