I've heard about child marriages happening in third world countries but imagine my surprise when I can across this news article.
I thought America had matured enough since it's birth over 300 years ago.
I can't believe this is still happening here in our country.
Children may be very intelligent I won't argue that but do they really comprehend the reality of being in a committed relationship?
Being a child is hard enough but to throw the responsibility of marriage at them is just going too far. Why don't our elected officials local, state and federal get off their butts, pull their heads out of their asses and do something right for a change and stop this abuse of children?
How can any child be mature enough to handle marriage?
Here is the link to the news article you can read it for yourself.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/502900049/women-girls
Just disgusting.
WOOF IT AND STEEM ON
I agree it's appalling! Children marrying is disgusting and breaking their innocence. Unacceptable under every circumstance, especially when it is a child with an older man (pedophiles).
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Exactly! They are destroying the innocence of these children.
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Well, coquiunlimited? If you're talking about 7-year-old girls being wedded to men in their late eighties, then you and I are both on the same page. I was very enraged when I saw a YouTube video reporting that there had been a 14-year-old grandmother living in Nigeria. That is, this girl was forced into marriage at the age of 7 to a man Hugh Hefner's age and then impregnated, and then the exact same thing happened to her daughter when she was 7 years old. (Yeah, I get it. Hugh Hefner is dead, but I'm sure you get what I'm saying.) However, there has been a major moral panic stirring up with regard to teenage girls getting married here in the United States of America, while, at the same time, our society has continued to turn a blind eye to the very real problem of deadbeat teenage fathers wreaking havoc on the lives of middle-school and high-school girls in a Levi Johnston fashion. At the same time, in this crusade to end teenage marriage in our nation, the clinical terms "pedophile" and "pedophilia" are getting misconstrued and misdefined in conversations about it. In a nutshell, I've known many women throughout my life who first got married before they were 18 years old and not necessarily to a boy their own age , and none of these women had anything tragic to tell me about their lives. On the other hand, from the time I was 11 years old, I've known many girls who became pregnant at 17, 16, 15, 14, 13 and even 12 years old who suffered both emotional and physical abuse at the hands of the deadbeat teenage fathers of their babies. However, any time anyone has ever attempted to speak up against these punks, it's as though the fact that they are minors still in high school or middle school makes them completely blameless for destroying these girls' lives. Somehow all of that just doesn't sit very well with me. Just a little bit of food for thought I wanted to send your way.
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we all know its wrong but still its happening everywhere...
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Yes and it's sickening to say the least.
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its happening here in india too.
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It's sad that it has to happen anywhere.
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In my state of TN the lowest age is 16 with parental consent. Crazy some states say 14!! Didn't realize that happened in the U.S. Child marriages in 3rd world countries can end up so horribly for young girls. So many being physically abused, dying in childbirth, and other bad things. 14 is far too young.
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Hello neighbor. I've never been to KingsportKingsport but if you ever go through Manchester give me a shout. I would love to meet you and your family. Just hope nobody is scared of dogs. 😊
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I live in Manchester TN. Where are you?
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I live near Kingsport, TN! Howdy neighbor!
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It's heartbreaking made me angry a bit! Let a child be a child! I don't care if these are 'practices" or what...it's just not right! BTW, just peeking in, big bro @guarddog woof!
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I made a post for you the other day Lol Sis. Didn't you see it?
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OMG, I didn't see yet, big bro.....lemme find it real fast lol thank youuuuuuuu!
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This post has received a 1.56 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
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Guarddog? I realize that I've just walked into the lion's den, because I know that you're against teenage marriage and, at the same time, I have reservations about state legislators setting a solid minimum marriageable age of 18 years old with no exceptions here in the United States of America; and I do nothing to hide my viewpoints in this regard in my articles here on Steemit. Anyhow, now and then I like to speak to the other side on this issue and find out what they have to say. Anyhow, let me ask you this one pressing question. If this movement to make the minimum marriageable age a strict 18 years old with no exceptions all over America is so popular, why aren't the people who want these laws asking state legislators to put a proposition, measure or question to this effect on each of their state's November ballots so that the voters themselves can decide on these laws instead of the legislators? It would only make sense, because changing these laws is going to affect everybody in one way or another. Moreover, such a law setting 18 years old as the minimum marriageable age with no exceptions is going to give more power to the criminal justice system than before to intervene into people's lives. To some people, that will be good, but to other's, it will not be so good. I'm just as much against sexual predators as you are. However, shouldn't it be up to the voters rather than the legislators to decide whether underage marriage is to be ended here in our nation?
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