The Idea That Parents Didn't Care about Their 14-Year Old Daughters

[sarah FAILIN]

5. Sounds like Mayberry.

I didn't live in Mayberry though. I'm sorry, but not everyone lived this way. Honestly, I am embarrassed enough. I don't enjoy the judgement.
My aunt married at 14. They built a little cement block house next to my grandmother and had 3 kids. She was quite a catch back then because she was going to inherit some land from our families "Uncle" who had taken my grandfather in during the depression as a teen farm hand. All the children in that family had been put with either families that needed workers or nannies for the girls.
My father found a 14 yr old of his own when I was 10 or 12. I raised holy hell and pretended like I was taking pics of them if he touched her, but that was useless. My parents were divorced and we had no contact with our mother at all, so he brought her around us all the time and even took her on our family vacation. My grandmother raised holy hell to start with till she got scared he as a nearly 40 yr old might marry the 14 yr old to spite her.
The only people that didn't care was her parents and they saw him as a factory worker with a little land and his own block house sitting on it as an unbelievable catch to a family of egg pickers and chicken catchers.
So sorry to tell you, but it was not that unheard of and will not sway the election much at all. It is an embarrassment to me bu not unheard of in poor families.
we need to move past this and get on issues which Moore has not a lot to say on.