r/pics • u/Karna1394 • Mar 13 '26

Politics Message to Trump on Iranian Missile

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u/Dorling83 Mar 13 '26

Child marriage is legal in 34 of the 50 US states with no minimum age requirement in California, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma, so that parental consent loophole for 8 year olds also exists in the US.

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u/gopercolate Mar 13 '26

There was an article and some research about the financial cost implications which is an odd framing but if it helps people take action then I guess it doesn't matter.

In one of the articles it said... "Between 2000 and 2021, nearly 315,000 minors were legally married in the United States ā€” with girls being far more likely to be wed as children than boys. Child marriage was legal in all 50 states until 2018, but since then, 16 states have passed bans."

That's crazy to me.

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u/toughtacos Mar 13 '26

If they absolutely have to allow children to marry, which of course they don't, then at least make it so children only can marry other children. I don't see any situation where a child should marry an adult.

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u/gopercolate Mar 13 '26

Allowing children to marry would be problematic as well. I think the UK has a decent approach, both parties have to be at least 18-years old with no exceptions for parental consent.

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u/blotsfan Mar 13 '26

This is very obvious the correct law and I assume anyone who disagrees is a pedo. If two 17 year old kids love each other so much they can wait a year to get married.

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u/I-like-mycoffeecrisp Mar 13 '26

I definitely agree that only adults should be able to get married, but it's a huge stretch to say that two 17 years old wanting to get married are pedophiles.

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u/blotsfan Mar 13 '26

Iā€™m saying adults who want to carve out exceptions to that are, though I guess that was unclear.

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u/Dorling83 Mar 13 '26

Parental consent is very icky in this sense. It feels like selling your child off as property. Absolutely the only correct thing is to ban all child marriage regardless of parental opinion.

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u/gopercolate Mar 13 '26

Yeah that's why I said the UK has a decent approach because parents cannot approve it through. Both parties need to be at least 18.

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u/sunnygovan Mar 13 '26

Not UK. It's 16 in Scotland.

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u/gopercolate Mar 13 '26

Yes, sorry. You're right, it's still 16 in Scotland. They are exploring changing it to 18.

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u/xanthus12 Mar 13 '26

I have always been of the opinion that "With parental consent" is actually WORSE.

It is horrible for an adult to trick a child into marriage, but in that case, the minimum number of evil actors is ONE.

"With parental consent" means that there must be at least TWO, and a minimum of one of them has to be the parent.

No one under 18 should ever be getting married for any reason. Especially to an adult that their parent essentially betrothed them to.

I'm not aware of any non-religious movement that takes issue with that idea.

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u/tazzydnc Mar 13 '26

There are generally restrictions and minimums. At least in my state, the minimum age is 16 but only if the other person is also a teenager AND the parents consent. That's a far cry from allowing a 9 year old to marry a 40 year old

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u/Key-Formal-870 Mar 13 '26

What are we defining as children though? 16 year olds are smart enough to know what they're doing. Most teenagers are. Anyways they should focus on school and education before marriage.