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RE: The Great American Controversy Over Underage Marriage [Part A]
Time to pop open that bottle now @epiccenterdefacto :)
BTW, you don't seem to have mentioned the practice of child marriages in India, amongst the Hindus mainly. It is outlawed of course, and even when it happens at very early ages, the children often live separately until a little older. However, it is a fact!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_India
What a subject you have spoken at length on - over the course of all these posts. I have only skim read this, and would need much more time to delve inside!
Barge? Yeah, I focus more on the subject of teenage marriage here in the United States of America in my article above. What I have noticed is that some of the activists who are trying to impose a solid marriageable age of 18 years old across my nation through proposed legislation have been unfairly comparing teenage marriages here in our nation with child marriages in Islamic nations. Because Islamic nations are, for the most part, patriarchies, I feel that these people are comparing oranges and apples. And, yes, I get it that some people are uneasy about adolescent girls marrying husbands older than what would be conventional in American society for girls that age to date; but because I have met many couples that fit this description here in my country who are very happy together and have been so for decades, I become very suspicious as for the authenticity of any so-called statistical information that people like Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot diffuse to the public in support of their efforts. If there are to be any changes in the marriage laws in the manner that these people like Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot want, I believe that it should not be state legislators who decide upon it but rather voters who do so in the form of propositions, questions or measures on the November state ballots. I know that they will not take it down that avenue, however, because they know that there will be a lot of people opposed to their efforts. California already gave them a significant amount of pushback.