(June 24, 2015 at 7:16 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 6:52 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Again, you need to think this through.Unless she got married. With someone she wanted to marry and who wanted to marry her. It's not an all-or-nothing, she marries her rapist or she doesn't marry at all, deal.
Let's say the man who claimed the girl as a spoil of war was in his mid 20's maybe 30. Suppose the girls was 15 or 16. Lifespans were shorter and women outlive men for genetic (and reasons of war and occupations). So this guy dies 20 years later leaving this now 35-year-old woman with no children and no income.
Destitution.
You've read Akin's article?