“I've said before that I think the Lord must have been in favour of marriage at about 12 or 13 because you're first able to have children at that age.”

— David Berg

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Children of God founder 1919–1994

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“I believe God's system is the best! He made kids able to get married & have children at 12, 13 & 14, & if you ask me, He must have known that was the best age, because then they could kind of grow up with their own kids.”

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“It needs satisfaction just like any other, & you really really really get frustrated if you can't have it. You can get such guilt complexes, too, for having any. But why did the Lord make you able to have children at the age of 11, 12 & 13 if you weren't supposed to have sex then?”

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“I've said before that I think the Lord must have been in favour of marriage at about 12 or 13 because you're first able to have children at that age.”

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