i looked that up a while ago and apparently the median age of first childbirth was around 21 or 22 for women, though this depends on wealth: wealthy people had children earlier (on average), going down to about 16-18 for many noble women.
That’s a poor claim to make. The European societies almost always were encouraged to marry off their daughters even the poor. I supposed slightly less men got married accounting for death rates and the possibility to remarry after your wife dies, but that vast majority of poor people that made it to adulthood had children. There was no contraception and women were married off the vast majority of the time.
i looked that up a while ago and apparently the median age of first childbirth was around 21 or 22 for women, though this depends on wealth: wealthy people had children earlier (on average), going down to about 16-18 for many noble women.
poor people often didn’t have children at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age
That’s a poor claim to make. The European societies almost always were encouraged to marry off their daughters even the poor. I supposed slightly less men got married accounting for death rates and the possibility to remarry after your wife dies, but that vast majority of poor people that made it to adulthood had children. There was no contraception and women were married off the vast majority of the time.