Would you call a man pedophile if he, at the age of 40, marries an 18 year old? (After having an affair with her for several years)

Ruttie Petit. Born in February 1990 to Sir Dinshaw Petit and Lady Dina Petit, belonging to the Petit family who founded the first cotton mills in India.

Later known as Maryam Jinnah, after converting to Islam from Zoroastrianism, she was the second wife of Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Jinnah met Ruttie in 1914 when he fell in love with her.

Sir Dinshaw Petit was a friend of Jinnah, according to some sources only three years younger than him. Jinnah had known Ruttie all her life.

It was in 1916, Ruttie was 16 and Jinnah was 40, when he went to Sir Dinshaw Petit with his proposal.

Sir Dinshaw didn't approve of the wedding, mostly because of political and religious reasons. It was in 1918, two years since the proposal, when the Bombay Chronicles published the news about the marriage of Ruttie and Jinnah.

She had sneaked in and out of her house, to first accept Islam, and later marry Jinnah without her parents knowledge.

Even back then, it was not legally easy for the marriage to take place, but it did.

The Nikkah ceremony took place after which the couple left for their honeymoon.

In 1919, Dina Wadia, the only child of Jinnah and Ruttie was born. She passed away in 2017.

Ruttie passed away in 1929, on her 29th Birthday. Jinnah never remarried after her and have said to have regretted the decision at one point himself.

When I first read about this part of the history, I was honestly shocked and disturbed. I do understand that girls were married as early as 14 but an age difference of 24 years never sounded comfortable to me.

I wonder if people would like to change their votes now or not.

I am also aware that Quaid e Azam introduced the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929. The year Ruttie passed away. I wonder if it an attempt to fix mistakes or just purely political.