What will Woman get in Paradise.....Muslims view

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[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1800's C.E. U.S.A. -- Babies to 10 years? In England and the United States, feminist agitation in the late nineteenth century called attention to the young age (babies to pre-puberty) of consent and called for changes in the law. By the 1920s the age of consent, a state issue in the United States, was raised in every state and ranged from fourteen (14yrs) to eighteen (18yrs), with most states settling on sixteen (16yrs) or eighteen (18yrs

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1800's C.E. -- 13 years old -- In the nineteenth century France issued the Napoleonic Code and many other countries, following France's example, began revising their laws. The Napoleonic Code, however, had not changed the age of consent, which remained at thirteen (13yrs).

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1900-2000 C.E. -- 9 years old -- Historians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sometimes been reluctant to accept data regarding young ages of marriage, holding instead that the recorded age was a misreading by a later copier of the records. Natalie Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre became a movie, made her heroine, Bertrande, much older than the nine old girl she was when she married her missing husband.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar Of the ninety-eight girls on the ten-year register, three probably married at age eight (8 years), one at twelve (12 years), one at thirteen (13 years), and two at fourteen (14 years).

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar Only in the last sentence of the register does it indicate that she was a widow. Did the compiler read that far?We simply do not know what her age at first marriage was, or even if it had been consummated.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1700-1800 C.E. -- 14 year old WIDOW? -- Unrecorded are marriages without parental consent and private weddings and the quality of data varies from region to region. For example in the parish of Middlesex County, Virginia, there is a record of fourteen (14) year-old Sarah Halfhide marrying twenty one (21) year-old Richard Perrot.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar We know of her case only because two years later she sued for divorce, and was released from the covenant she had made because the marriage had not been consummated. Interestingly, historian Holly Brewer, who discovered the case, speculated that if William had raped Mary, she probably would not have been given the divorce.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1600 C.E. -- The American colonies followed the English tradition but the law could at best be called a guide. For example in Virginia in 1689, Mary Hathaway was only nine (9 years) when she was married to William Williams.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1600's C.E. -- 4 yrs. & 9 yrs. -- The most influential legal text of the seventeenth century in England, that of Sir Edward Coke, made it clear that the marriage of girls under twelve (12) was normal, and the age at which a girl who was a wife was eligible for a dower from her husband's estate was nine (9 years old) even though her husband be only four (4) years old.

[23EmilyPrincess]

@Allahusexbar 1500's C.E. -- BABIES in Diapers! A contemporary, Philip Stubbes, wrote that in sixteenth-century East Anglia, infants still in swaddling clothes (diapers) were married.