Actually, the point of Romeo and Juliet is that marrying so early is a bad idea, even if Juliet’s mother also did it. Juliet’s father tries to dissuade Paris—whom he does hope will marry Juliet—from doing so quite so soon. People at the time, despite what is now commonly believed, did not get married until they were in their 20s. The notion that a 13 year old getting married wasn’t a terrible idea was introduced by Victorian literature critics, who needed to explain away the lusty thoughts in the play.
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