and when girls get married at the tender age of 16, they in literal sense leave their families and follow their husbands. and sometimes they're even proud of the blisters they develop on their hips from the hundreds of pounds of wedding dress with skirts so big they can't get out of cars/carriages or even get through the aisles of the church.

yup still talking about the traveller people.

starting to sound a little ethnocentric/ethnicist myself with all the they's in the past paragraph. the dangers of the inability to empathize.