Good Morning, This is my last message on the subject of 11 year old girls getting married. Permit me to remind everyone that to compare a 11 year old female of today to a 11 year old female who lived 100 to 200 years ago is like comparing apples and oranges. They just won't mix. Even in the early 1920's, when I was a young boy, girls usually carried a far greater responsibility around the house than those of today. Going further back, say to the early to mid-1800's, an 11 year old girl probably did some of the washing, cooking, baby sitting for her younger siblings and perhaps even milking the cow and churning butter. There have been a number of books written on the subject of frontier life. One such author was named Eckhardt. Admittedly his writings are considered semi-fictional but the stories were based on life as it existed in those days. So when we discuss 11 year old girls we have to consider it in the context of those earlier days. If, as a father of several children in those days, I was forced to consider the need of a new wife to replace my just deceased wife who was the mother of several young children, I might not want to marry a woman with a flock of kids from another marriage. It would be the prelude to a bad marriage. I would look for a girl who had never been married and needed to find a man who would care for her as her own parents had done. When I held my first born son in my arms in spring of 1951 I did so in awe at the experience. It made me wonder if this was the way my parents, my grandparents and so on back felt as each new child entered the world? I enjoy the interchange on this subject as long as it stays on an intelligent level. Keep Looking UP. Angus "Scotty" Robinson