Just to add one to this, people show a real lack of understanding of how life was in these times when they speak about grown men and their child brides and why it was culturally acceptable.

It wasn't 2017. You did manual labor, a huge percentage of kids died in child birth, you could die from a disease that is easily cured today at any time, etc. The whole idea of "let's let the girl grow up, travel the world, start a career and then she can become a mom at 30" philosophy not only didn't exist, but couldn't exist.

Almost everyone was poor as dirt. Starvation was an actual threat. You needed lots of sons to work. When you had daughters you can't afford to feed them so you have to give them off to a young man who can feed them, in return for the sons she will give him to help him get food and not starve to death.

Criticizijg people facing those sort of environmental pressures for fucking young girls is really about like criticizing lions for killing gazelles. That's what they evolved to do and what they needed to do not to starve and die.