Why is it that long ago it was ok to have a baby at let's say 14, and today its looked upon as irresponsible?

Social ideals change over time for some cultures. In many places it is still okay to have a baby a 14, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I think this is due to the cost of living, back in the day one person worked and the other stayed home, this does not seem two work anymore. I hear of people that both partners work and sometimes there are people working two jobs. I also think this accounts for a lot of the health issues today, my mom works in the medical field and she says people as young as 20 are coming in for heart attacks.

Times change and things change with them with the more we learn and grow in knowledge. Back in the day we didnt know as much about childbirth also and didnt realize what bad effects it on young women who arent fully developed.We know now that pregnancies at young ages can cause serious complications. We learn and grow over time and try and improve things. Its like asking why children have to sit in car seats now when back in the day they didnt have to. Its because we know it isnt safe and have the knowledge to know better now. It also has to do with our society. 14 year olds also used to be alot more mature, not in school, and were being married and raising a family and working a farm. Things change and we change social rules to change with it.

Because at 14 they were married and there was no such thing as divorce or leaving your husband. People lived with their families and it would take lots of people to raise that child. Also women had no future except to be wives and mothers and earn income through whatever manual labor that was available to them. If 14 year olds were still in those situations, it would be fine. And in some places they are, and it is fine. The baby turns out fine because it is not just the mother raising the child. Of course you realize that back then the life expectancy was around 40, the infant mortality rate was crazy high, and lots of women died in childbirth. Women also had no rights, there was no such thing as women being educated, and women were pretty much property. Things change. Life changes. It’s like asking why long ago it was ok for people to own slaves, and now we frown upon it. Because life and circumstances change.

i think one big reason was because their life spans were far shorter than ours. When the average life span is 50,, instead of 85, people gets moving on things like babies/marriage a lot earlier.

one reason is because back then men who were, let’s say 25, would go out and look for a wife, but all the women his age were taken so he had to settle for somebody younger. sometimes they might have ended up being married to a 14 year old. that’s what happened to some of the men in my family

the reason this could have been is because back then men were expected to start a family at a young age, and today that’s not the case obviously. nowadays younger people are expected to get an education and have a career

Long ago people gt married and had jobs at 14. They also lived with their spouse’s parents for a while after marriage and had shorter life spans.

because these days its ..like that

Actually, 14 for women and 16 for men, is the ideal age to marry and have children. At that age the genes are the strongest and do produce the strongest humans.

Science has found that women after the age of 35 to 40, I believe, their babies will have genetic weaknesses than at younger ages, say like between 18 and 30. Science is also finding it to be the same with men. Only it starts later in life for men.

In the past, like before 1900AD and back in ancient times, children helped with the family survival. They learned at an early age. They had stronger genes for survival, but other factors came in, like diseases and wars. Man didn’t have the immune system to survive unknown diseases.

Today more and more couples are have children later in life. In 20 years or so, we should see the effect of that as they get older.

I have never heard this, so if this is true then all these teenage mom are helping the evolution of the human race?

I have heard the same thing about that, I was shocked but it seems to b very true, allthough I must say in some countries is normal for girls to have kids at age 13

Well I know in the age we live in, if a girl “not a women” has a child it tends to financially strap the family. Then there would be environmental variables that would play in that child development, that could be more harmful then the good of having children younger, if this theory is correct.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t believe a 14 yr old girl shud b havein children either

In this time and age, yes, 14 is too young to have a baby. Plus, we don’t have the extended families like long ago that taught the younger generation how to survive through life. Today parents, or parent, doesn’t do much in that area hoping education and schools will do the job. Guess what……. have they done that? Nope

Because in the past it wasn’t as big of a deal because they didn’t know all the damage that it could cause for having a baby at a young age. They didn’t properly take care of the babies then there. I wouldn’t say that it was necessarily, “okay”, it just happened more often than it does now-a-days. Although, whenever I was in middle school, girls that were thirteen and fourteen were popping up pregnant left and right.

times change,and it looked good cause i don’t know, i think cause it was normal that people had even like 10 or 12 kids at the time(i’m talking bout the 30´s or so..) and cause in that time people thought that the only thing that the a woman could do was to procreate(what a big band of dushes :( ) that’s why it think so…