Why does the body ready itself for reproduction years before the mind is ready to become a parent?

Question

Why does the body ready itself for reproduction years before the mind is ready to become a parent?

Answer 1

Wow, that is a very good question in which i havent a clue to the answer

Answer 2

No shxt.

Puberty comes before mental maturity.

Answer 3

A very long time ago, people began to have children at 12 or 13. the life expectancy was only 30.

Answer 4

The question should be: "How come humans are not mentally mature enough to raise a child once their bodies are ready to reproduce?"

Young humans are capable of much more than what is expected of them by modern society. However, our current culture focuses on training the young people to be consumers and not responsible members of the human race who contribute to the good of humanity.

Answer 5

Evolution (I don’t believe that we evolved from apes), but in ancient days people did not have the expected life span as we do now, so it was important for them to reproduce early. As we evolved life expectancy increased and the reproduction process remained the same.

Answer 6

just the way god made us. early people would have kids around 13-14(wen the body "readys itself")

even later than that but still ancient times girls would be married around 13

Answer 7

Years ago, life expectancies were short.  You were lucky to live past 45.  Girls as young as 16 had children and guys were married at 20, and you didn't have a lot of time to get it right since the mortality rate of children was also high.

Nowadays, we force kids to grow up and expect them to handle adult situations without giving them the tools to do so.  Girls as young as 10 are having babies, but neither are they ready in every sense of the word to keep and take care of a child when they're still one themselves.

Answer 8

I think it is more our serf-based economy doing it... If we could make our living off the land and everyone treated us fair, maybe we could still pull it off.

Answer 9

Because a person does not need a good education, morals, values, common sense, and even plain having some experience in life to reproduce.  If only the body did not mature until a persons mind and soul matured first.  Which in retrospect would be after high school of course around early twenties.  But sadly the two are not linked and will never be linked.  But it would sure cut down on a lot of unwanted pregnancies and teen pregnancies.  I get what your saying but really making a baby is as easy as it sounds.  I am not talking about fertility ether.  I mean unprotected s*x may equal child.  If only certain individuals grasped this concept.  And if only certain individuals realized they are far to young and imature to be having s*x in the first place.

Answer 10

cuz a long time ago we only lived 4 like 30 years but now we live longer so we can have kids when we r ready

Answer 11

It's a big cosmic joke, but not a very funny one.

Answer 12

Years ago, 14-16 yrs of age was the average age to get married and start a family.  By years I mean a couple hundred to a few hundred...its only recently (within the last 100 yrs) that people are older having children.  200 hundred yrs ago I would be considered an old maid...and I'm 25