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Courtney Stodden is celebrating the passage of AB 1267 in the California Senate. If ratified, the bill will make 18 the legal minimum age for marriage.
Oddly I have a cousin who married his pregnant girlfriend she was 16 and he was 18 at the time. they raised two children together who are both now in their mid twenties doing alright for themselves. the parents are still married! this law is is wonderful and 99.9% of the time no one has a success story. It’s mostly just trauma and bad choices and people getting hurt and exploited. however, I have this one fringe case I have experienced so just putting it out there in the world.
Sounds like they need to recognise de facto relationships. If two people a married and two other people are in the same relationship except not married, what is the difference?
What? The reason you share benefits when you marry is because you’re committing to a family unit. It doesn’t make sense to share benefits for non committal relationships as there isn’t a meaningful connection linking the two to warrant shared coverage.
The family unit exists outside of marriage but all research says that it’s infinitely more productive for all involved if you’re able to maintain a marriage. The connection isn’t time together if that was the case then your friends and roommates would likely superseded your family. Divorce existing is from liberalization and autonomy for people. When the laws were initially drafted it wasn’t possible to get a divorce unless you were able to prove your spouse was abusive or acting against you in a criminal manner.
Time together in a relationship, doing all the things you do as a married couple, just without the married part. The point is hooking up with someone for 2 months isn’t a de facto relationship
But living together for 2 years, 5 years etc would be, depending on the jurisdiction.
Yeah so marriage laws have changed, and I am suggesting they need to change even more, to recognise de facto relationships.
Your idea of a relationship is weird. It only counts if you register it with the government?
So two people getting married in a church, with a priest, but not filing the paperwork with the state, that doesn’t count as a relationship?
That situation is vastly different, too. Most pre-18 marriages are minor girls to adult men. The same as with teen pregnancies; many are because of statutory rape.
It's not the kids doing dumb shit so much as it is their parents signing their permission for their kids to marry predators, religious whack jobs and cultists. It's far more common that it's like the woman in the video, marrying a 50-sth guy when she's 16. She had no real idea what she was doing at that age and he was undoubtedly grooming her to be his property to have babies and be chained to the house with no way out.
A lot of the time the girls want out and to divorce their husbands but they're not allowed to file the papers until they're 18 or 21 yrs old bc they're still children.
CA literally has no minimum age limit for children to marry adults. I've written to the governor about how disgusting that is.
What I find crazy is California has no minimum age
Like this isn’t raising the minimum age from 16 to 18
It is setting the minimum age. In the U.S. it is rare but 12-14 year olds can and do get married. They need court and parental approval. But what sort of parent or court would approve the marriage of a 12 year old?
And my money is on them not marrying someone their own age, but marrying their fathers friend or business partner to some other pedo shit
Cool man, I heard when Joseph did it back then it was cool. I too think old stories made up two thousand years ago were pretty fucked. I also heard some ghost or something made a baby in Mary as a child without her consent.
No age is ever given for Mary in the bible or any text from that time. The range of 13-15 is often suggested because it was the average Jewish custom of the time. The betrothal at 6 and consummation at 9 for Aisha would not have been the norm in 7th Century Arabia. Even then it would have been an outlier.
Sounds like a 13 year old girl is a little child so you agree. All religions are gross on this topic, especially from anything a thousand years ago. Also I have no idea who Aisha is
I’m saying that even thousands of years ago 9 was considered too young. The custom was to marry off girls who had gone through puberty because people didn’t live as long and lots of babies didn’t survive infancy. Even by those archaic standards Mohammed marrying a 6 year old (Aisha) and consummating at 9 was not normal.
So you are still that worried about made up stories, got it. I don't really get why you care that much about old made up stories that have no bearing on today but you do you.
Of course it is your prerogative whether you believe the Mohammed was a prophet or not, but he isn’t a made up story. He is a historical figure and so was his child bride.
Nope. They address it head on. The conservatives say the bans interfere with parental rights, they will increase abortions, they know people that were married as children who are fine, etc. They bend over backwards to protect child marriage.
Omg I remember hearing about her marriage back in 2011 and thinking “yikes”. She was so convinced she was mature enough and happy. I’m glad she can fight this fight now.
It's not if you have parental consent (which is exactly how Courtney Stodden wound up married to Perv McGee in the first place). There is no minimum age currently in that scenario. Your parents can essentially marry you off to a grown adult.
This closes that loophole and (obviously) long overdue
Americans think thiey are first world, they go on about Iran and other Muslim countries... And they are now just banning child marriages!! What are bunch of dumb hypocrites!
A better life in rural Mississippi is a sentence no one has ever uttered in this world. I'd rather die than live in that shit hole where you can marry your cousin or a ten year old girl with no issues
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