Today’s 18 year olds are too coddled. Many girls are brainwashed into glorifying a life of poverty when they have no clue what that entails. The nineteenth century 18 year old shtetl girls LIVED a life of grinding poverty and saw nothing glorious about it. They married young because it meant one less mouth to feed. Today’s coddled 18 year olds, boys and girls, MO, yeshivish, chassidish, have no clue. Nathan Handwerker, founder of Nathan’s in Coney Island, was born Galicia into an Orthodox family and could not remember a time he was not hungry.
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