Fed-Kun's army
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THANK YOU! Someone else who gets it! That age exists solely to draw a hard line for the legal system.And setting the legal age of adult hood to 18 to 20 doesn't mean the human female body needs to reach that age to safely develop and give birth to a baby. The age of "adulthood/majority" is an artificially determined number based more on legal and political factors than any biological truth.
Most girls can get pregnant at around 12 and most guys can cause it at around 11. There are several good reasons why that is generally avoided, but that's just the reality of biology.
Interesting though that the average boy get's sexually mature earlier. That would indicate that it's biologically intended for people to fool around and find someone they wanna be with before "lasting consequences" can manifest.
Dunno how to feel about that thought exactly...
As far as I can see, that age going up is more an indicator of decline than anything else...16 is like, the human civilizational norm, with weird outlier savages (bangladesh, aborigines, frontier Americans), doing 12-under, and then also odd Northwestern Euros sometimes hitting 20.
The truth though is, with good nutrition and a reasonable economy, starting a family at 16 for a man or a woman is fine and physically sustainable. Mind you, for Japan, the historical age of marriage is around 14. Frontier America was about 12-15 at times.
Fun(?) fact: the youngest grandmother in history was 18, because nature doesn't care what humans think is right or wrong!