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What was the source from Christian apologists for her age, even if Wikipedia doesn’t take it?
From Marten Stol's Women in the Ancient Near East (de Gruyter, 2016):
We don't have any sources on Mary's age to Joseph, besides the Protoevangelium of James. And even then, that document says that she married a decaying widower because it was to preserve her virginity as he didn't have a sex drive, and was seen as a respectable man.