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In 1937 Sneedville, Tennessee, 9 year old Eunice Winstead was married to 22 year old Charlie Johns

Here is a picture of them together

What a disgusting creep he looks like, am I right? Look how miserable the poor girl looks like! /s

This wasn't the case of a disturbed, perverted man preying after young girls in the park, seducing them into a van with candy. This is a man of decent morals and with a job that was able of providing for an entire family. Eunice Winstead's was the next door neighbor to Charlie Johns, and her family grew up around him and knew that he was a good man and a safe pair of hands for their daughter. They happily married her to him with their full consent.

Explain to me why this is evil of her parents, when considering what the alternative was? Let her grow up and choose the man she would marry on her own? What if she ended up marrying an abusive, manipulative creep like women have been prone to do across history. Today, 90% of women who were raped know the person who raped them. HALF OF THESE RAPES HAPPEN ON DATES THEY AGREED UPON. The vast majority of women that are getting abused and assaulted today are in that position because they are terrible judges of character and choose to sleep and be around dangerous men. Modern women want to be crushed, abused, and hurt. If you let your daughter marry someone she fell in love with on her own, there's a good chance that you're letting her marry a complete psychopath.

Now, consider what Charlie Johns got out of this. He knew that his wife was a virgin on their wedding day, was 100% assured to experience her body in its prime (16-21), and was assured that they would be able to have plenty of children together as fertility was not even a concern. Most importantly he would have plenty of time to domesticate his wife, by the time she was an adult she would be a perfect wife and not a psychopathic independent feminist who don't need no man.

Indeed, the couple went on to have 7 different children together and had a very long life together, never divorcing or straying from eachother. Now compare this to the modern American marriage, where the wedding happens at age 27 and the (non-virgin) woman has 1...maybe 2 kids before her uterus shrivels up and falls out, punctuated by constant fights, and where the man constantly has to worry about the threat of her invoking a no-fault divorce and ruining his entire life. Which of these types of marriages are more beneficial to a healthy society?

Let me reiterate, I'm not for old men preying on random little girls in parks. I am for the father having complete control over who his daughter marries because I feel as though that's the best option for everyone. In these types of marriages, parents are able to know their daughters will be safe and provided for, daughters and sons are able to have happy, stable marriages with plenty of children. In these cases, the husband should be 18-20 and the wife should be anywhere from 5-10 years his junior.

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