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> from any culture that has ever existed

Actually there are a lot of eras that had a very low life expectancy in early times [1]. Giving birth at an age earlier than what our society finds acceptable would have been normal, if not the responsible thing to do, for those eras. Otherwise the parents would be living an unprepared 5 year old alone in the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy



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