Loki,
We are still waiting for your scriptual posts to support your allegations. Your allegations are merely prejudice in a secular perspective.
Also, Aisha was engaged to someone else before our Prophet married her. Thus shows that it was a normal customary practice. Also such practices can be found in just about every nation in the world that has not been secularized. Even the west use to have such a custom in which its laws owas based on.
Aburaees please excuse me, I am not at home at the moment to send you the reference from the Thalmud with commentary on the Torah in regards to the law about the age of women for marriage