Historical examples of intergenerational intimacy
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 1:07 am
Title says it all. Any user here can feel free to share any factual source showing examples of intergenerational intimacy being accepted in a specific culture/subculture or time period. I would also encourage to post here positive historical examples of youth-adult couples, so long as you back it up by linking it to a factual source. This thread will serve for archival purposes, specifically to document parts of MAP history.
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https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/echoes- ... /home-lifeWhen “well-to-do farmer B. K. Singh married the sixteen-year old daughter of one of his tenants in 1918 one headline read, ‘Hindu Weds White Girl by Stealing Away to Arizona.’ The article speculated that since Imperial County would not issue a license for a Punjabi and a white woman, it was doubtful that the clerk in Yuma acted legally.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_ButlerButler, who was of Irish origin, was an indentured servant to Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. At around 16 years of age she announced her intention to marry a man referred to only as "Negro Charles". A 1664 Maryland law outlined the legal status of a free woman who voluntarily married an enslaved man: she would serve the master of her husband until his death, and any offspring of their union would be born into slavery. Despite this, Butler was determined to be wed. The thought of a white woman becoming enslaved distressed Lord Baltimore, and he warned against the union for that reason.