Nobody under 18 should be getting married. If you can't be trusted to make a rational decision about who to elect President, whether or not to smoke or drink, whether or not to join the military -- you shouldn't be trusted to make a decision to enter marriage which is supposed to be a commitment for life.
Even if the girl is knocked up, that is no reason to automatically get married. It might have mattered years ago when having a baby out of wedlock was still taboo -- but it is no big deal now, so no one needs to rush into a marriage. If you can't wait a year or two until you turn 18, you don't comprehend the concept of a marriage anyway.
While I would never encourage anyone under 18 to marry, I don't think two seventeen-year-olds getting married is anything that should be banned. Again, this is about pedophilia. About girls and boys being groomed for sexual perversity, not teens falling in love. It's also about girls being sold into marriage. Yeah, all that: illegal. But two kid falling in love? Nope. Not a legal matter.
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migratorypatterns ago
This bill should have been killed if it stated that.
This is about PEDOPHILIA. That needs to be stopped. Not an eighteen-year-old marrying a seventeen-year-old.
scarlettm512 ago
Nobody under 18 should be getting married. If you can't be trusted to make a rational decision about who to elect President, whether or not to smoke or drink, whether or not to join the military -- you shouldn't be trusted to make a decision to enter marriage which is supposed to be a commitment for life.
Even if the girl is knocked up, that is no reason to automatically get married. It might have mattered years ago when having a baby out of wedlock was still taboo -- but it is no big deal now, so no one needs to rush into a marriage. If you can't wait a year or two until you turn 18, you don't comprehend the concept of a marriage anyway.
migratorypatterns ago
That's your opinion becoming law.
While I would never encourage anyone under 18 to marry, I don't think two seventeen-year-olds getting married is anything that should be banned. Again, this is about pedophilia. About girls and boys being groomed for sexual perversity, not teens falling in love. It's also about girls being sold into marriage. Yeah, all that: illegal. But two kid falling in love? Nope. Not a legal matter.