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RE: The Great American Controversy Over Underage Marriage [Table Of Contents]
but not all young marriage live happily, mostly they didn't manage the family well maybe because they we're too young to do so.
tjminer01? I appreciate your comment, but here is my response to it. I'm not mindless to the reality that there are teenage marriages that don't work out for the reasons that you described. For example, Macauley Culkin and Rachel Miner were both 17 years old when they got married back in the late 1990s, and their marriage ended in disaster after only two years. (Legally, after four years). However, here is the thing. If Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot were to have their own way and every state jurisdiction here in our country were to set the marriageable age at a solid 18 years old with no exceptions, it would affect a lot of people and not necessarily in a positive sort of way as I have described in detail throughout the above article. Therefore, if any of our states are to entertain such a drastic change in their laws, I say that it would only make sense that it be done in the form of a proposition, a measure, or a question on a state's November ballot rather than leaving it up to the state legislators themselves to change these laws. That way whatever gets ultimately decided will be by the will of the people rather than allowing for overzealous state legislators to shove these laws down people's throats only to serve their own agenda rather than the good of the people. If it were handled in the manner that I suggest, I think that everyone would be able to live with the outcome of such a decision. However, if state legislators simply change these laws in such a way that it gets shoved down everyone's throat, I think that we will have to expect that this controversial issue will end up on the floor of the Supreme Court of the United States. A lawyer in Tennessee has already brought this matter to the Supreme Court of the United States, because he disagrees with Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot's efforts to pass a marriage law in his state that would make the marriageable age a solid 18 years old with no exceptions.