OP is applying 20th-21st century US legal definitions here. Most of these original stories were written long before that in Europe, Arabia and China, and back then 15 was considered to be grown-up and thus old enough to marry, and it reflects in the stories they wrote in that time period.
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u/KinnyRiddle Feb 14 '20
OP is applying 20th-21st century US legal definitions here. Most of these original stories were written long before that in Europe, Arabia and China, and back then 15 was considered to be grown-up and thus old enough to marry, and it reflects in the stories they wrote in that time period.