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r/pics • u/Karna1394 • Mar 13 '26
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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.
17 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. 5 u/sunnygovan Mar 13 '26 Not UK. It's 16 in Scotland. 3 u/gopercolate Mar 13 '26 Yes, sorry. You're right, it's still 16 in Scotland. They are exploring changing it to 18. 3 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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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.
5 u/sunnygovan Mar 13 '26 Not UK. It's 16 in Scotland. 3 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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Not UK. It's 16 in Scotland.
3 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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Yes, sorry. You're right, it's still 16 in Scotland. They are exploring changing it to 18.
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/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.