Historical Age of Marriage in Non-Western Countries
Age of Marriage in Egypt
In the article “Marriage in Ancient Egypt”, we read:
Marriage contracts do not generally tell the age of the parties, but we know from
other documents that marriage almost always occurred after sexual adulthood.
The average age for girls to enter puberty was 12 to 13, and around 14 for boys…
we find documentation of brides being as young as 8… It was not all together
uncommon for older men who had usually lost their wife to either death or
divorce to marry very young "women". Qenherkhepeshef, a scribe from Deir El
Medina for example married a 12 year old girl when he was 54.
(TourEgypt.com, http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/marriage.htm)
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Age of Marriage in India
Jack Goody is a fellow of St. John’s College in Cambridge. In his book The Oriental, the
Ancient, and the Primitive, we find that girls were married off very early in Indian
households:
Srinivas writes of the days in India when ‘pre-pubertal weddings were the rule’
(1984:11): a girl had to be married ‘before she came of age.’ The father of a girl
was obliged by Hindu law and by custom of the country to marry her before she
attained puberty, though cohabitation was often delayed, an average of three
years…
(The Oriental, the Ancient, and the Primitive, p.208.
http://books.google.com/books?id=CZQ...A207&lpg=PA207
&dq=age+of+marriage+ancient+japan&source=web&ots=5 WGazdlO6f& sig=rvR
tOggFs6yteb0Rks251bg-_k4#PPP1,M1)
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Age of Marriage in Russia
In Russia, girls were being married off during childhood just some one hundred years
ago. We read:
DeMause (1990)[8] pointed to “child marriage [being] widespread in Russia well
into the nineteenth century.”
(G.U.S.: World Atlas, http://www2.huberlin.
de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/RUSSIA.HTM#_Toc82813007)
And it is well-known that such early marriages remain prevalent in India today.
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