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Full title: In 1989, this family was featured in Guinness World Records as the most living generations ever in a family: Augusta Bunge(109),daughter(89),granddaughter(70),great-granddaughter(52),great-great granddaughter(33),great-great-great-granddaughter(15) and great-great-great-great-grandson(1 month).

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They all had kids before they reached their 20s that's fucked up

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know, it seems pretty normal all the way up until the 15 year old daughter having a kid.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even 18 and 19yo are a bit offputing to me at least. The 15yo is definitely the worst

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

You're talking about a person born in 1880. It's silly to try to use modern dating rules and apply it back so far. They also have to be young to achieve this sort of record.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

“Modern dating rules”

Nah, sex/marriage before your twenties wasn’t even a thing in the Middle Ages. It’s historically pretty abnormal, teenage girls don’t have the bodies to safely carry children.

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, talking about the 15 year old girl in the picture who has a one month old baby there in 1989. Things were not different back then. Knocking up a 14y/o in 1988 was still a crime, even if the dude doing it was 14 also. Which, you know he wasn't.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know of any place in America that has criminalized a 14-year-old sleeping with a 14-year-old.

As far as I'm aware, most states have Romeo and Juliet laws, so like as long as they are less than two years apart, then it's not a crime either.

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps you should check again. Many states do have "Romeo and Juliet" laws, but not most. Not even half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States

If you're under the age of consent, then consent cannot be granted, even if both parties claim to be willing. Of course, most states will not enforce this under most circumstances where it's just a couple kids fooling around, but it is still illegal.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love that you're putting the law above ethics here. These two horny same aged teenagers had sex but were too young to consent, therefore they should both go to jail! Damn these lenient judges!

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, maybe you didn't get to the last sentence of my post... but do go on, I'd love to hear you make an ethical argument defending statutory rape.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same aged minors exploring their sexuality isn't rape. That shouldn't be at the discretion of a judge. Especially in red states where the judges are extra racist and extra homophobic.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We're talking about a person who gave birth in 1989...

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first couple sure. But all the others?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not arguing this is how it should or shouldn't be, but you understand that things used to be different?

https://images.stacker.com/w/1080/40j6wtypicalmarriageagerisesformenandwomen1LW5Q.png?v=v3

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So… a 14yo in 1974? Yeah… I’m gonna still say that’s a bit much.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's 1988 even, seeing as the picture is dated 1989.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I don’t know why I subtracted her age from the date. My brain is broken.

She would have been 14 in 1988.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 19 points 1 week ago

If all of them had taken it as seriously as the 15 year old, it could be 8 generations with the oldest one being only 105...

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Imagine... The 70 years old gets asked whether she has grandchildren... She could respond that even her grandchildren have grandchildren....

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Getting pregnant at 14 is literally rape if done by an adult, or just terrible if done with another kid, in any case it's horrible.

[–] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You expect me to believe Courtney Love was 15 in this photo???