Stop trying to find the perfect woman. My wife was a raging liberal feminist when I met her. Most women have been subjected to years of propaganda and brainwashing, so you’re going to have some work to do. It’s your job to be a strong male leader and set her on the right path. Most women are not independent thinkers. They’re products of their environment and leadership. Strong male leaders produce good women.
Science supports adult-level cognitive function around age 16. A large study of more than 5,000 people across 11 countries found that general cognitive capacity reached adult levels at about 16.
The idea that a 16-year-old is automatically a “child” is a modern social construct. For most of human history, puberty marked the transition into the adult stage of life, with marriage and adult responsibilities often following soon after. Anthropologists Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III, studying 186 nonindustrial societies, found that adolescence commonly ended around 16 for girls, and marriage often marked the transition into adult life. Average marriage ages were roughly 14–16 for females and 16–20 for males.
This began changing about 150–200 years ago, accelerating during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Industrialization and expanding education increasingly kept girls in school and shifted those years toward education and wage work instead of early marriage, motherhood, and running a household. The modern concept of prolonged “adolescence” developed during this period.