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The boy looks like he is 12. Why is his face visible but the (what I assume is a) girl’s face is not?
But don't you dare attack a nation sympathiser...
I know we all hate Reddit, but you don't have to sink as low as this. This is a single post, hardly reddit's stance.
Religion aside, I have a solid argument for child marriage. Funny that no one who espouses the idea ever brings this up.
Being married gives one a lot more legal options and rights. Say an old man marries a young cousin so as to grease the wheels on his inheritance. Americans often marry so the other party can get health insurance. As with inheritance, the child could realize property rights they would not have access to.
Point being, people get married for reasons outside of love and sex.
Another thought, as socially conservative as we Americans are, it's a wonder no politicians run on moving state marriage and consent ages to match our nationwide age of majority (18). Maybe it turns out to be a poisonous talking point? Can't imagine anyone arguing, out loud anyway, for teen marriage. Weird.
Why not adopt the child instead? It bestows far more protection on the child, including protection against sexual abuse. It has every other advantage that marriage would have.
Another thought, as socially conservative as we Americans are, it's a wonder no politicians run on moving state marriage and consent ages to match our nationwide age of majority (18). Maybe it turns out to be a poisonous talking point? Can't imagine anyone arguing, out loud anyway, for teen marriage. Weird.
No, we do have Republican representatives who do openly argue for lowering the minimum marriage age. Like...a lot. All the fucking time, really
This happens so often I can't even give you a list of names... And I have no idea why no one seems to talk about this
Also, they get caught with CP or kids a lot. Lot of venom diagram overlap... Go figure
Didn't mean conservative politically, meant to comment on our overall sexual and social conservatism. America is, and always has been, weirdly Puritan.
Being married gives one a lot more legal options and rights.
Where? Because it's not like that anywhere I know of. At best you get some small tax breaks. Certainly no more rights or legal options other than those purely related to marriage. Like being able to get divorced.
I think the inheritance part is true, if your spouse dies and you have joint ownership of the home and bank accounts, they're not being inherited, you already fully own them
You can do this without marriage, but you can't do this for the purposes of tax avoidance... If you give your child joint ownership out of nowhere, you'll need to explain why if the IRS starts asking questions. And there are valid answers, like if they work the family farm or business, it does make sense that they should gain ownership as their responsibility grows. Things can also be gifted for less tax obligations or put into a trust (and those rules are very wonky), but this is a simple traditional practice
But with marriage? You can claim "this is just how we do marriage, we have joint finances", and that is an accepted cultural behavior in most places. You can do it immediately, and it offers legal protection as well... For things such as medical malpractice, only the negligent party is exposed, so you cut the maximum amount that can be collected to your combined ownership/2 - primary home and other basics
Granted, I think "but this way we can cheat the system and pay less taxes" is a terrible rationale for child marriage...
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This one is about Reddits chaos No different to the unfettered Nazi bullshit. Extremely unlikely that Reddit can be accused of being too woke or Pro-Islam.
I prefer to follow the “half your age + 7” method in finding out the youngest age of maturity your partner should be.
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Religion. Leave it and open your eyes to the real world. Stop believing in fairy tales.
I have a weird take that will give me downvotes.
In the US we grow up with 18 being an adult and consent for most things (driving is the exception and why I say "most things" )
I don't agree with marriage under 18.
In other countries though that is not the case and that is their custom. And I'm in no position to argue on some other cultures customs IN their country.
If you're in a country where underage marriage is acceptable, and you move to the US, then it is unacceptable.
I think people generally agree with you, but there are limits to what people will tolerate anywhere. For instance if Rwanda made a law requiring Hutus to murder of Tutsis, most people would say that's unacceptable even in Rwanda.
There's obviously a bright line between ok and not ok in that example, but for marriage it could be a little more unclear. Sure, maybe a 17 year old marrying a 19 year old is ok in some places and not others, but overall no one will probably be that upset about it. However, a majority of the world has a problem with a 50 year old marrying a 10 year old. Where exactly the line is crossed is open to debate, but pretty much everyone agrees there should be a line. Most countries are picking 18 as that line because it's better to have an imperfect choice rather than none at all.
Almost all age of consent laws and marriage laws (not finding a good map on this one) start well into puberty. Pretty funny seeing all the 18 countries right next to "no age" countries.
And the US is all over the place! I could hop any of 3 state lines and bangin' a 16-yo is fine. Meanwhile, at home, 17 would see me in a concrete and steel box. Weird. Of course our laws make Europe look positively rapey, if one believes 18 is some moral, hard limit. Guess it's no surprise our laws are more puritanical.
I could hop any of 3 state lines and bangin' a 16-yo is fine
Funny enough, hopping the state line to do it is not so fine...but if you happen to be in the state for a different reason...
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Only 10 US states peg age of consent at 18. Most are 17 a several are 16.
Check Europe's age of consent and age of marriage laws.
If teens getting married or fucking bothers anyone here, have a look at your own laws before casting stones at the US.
Its not really a culture issue though. In the US we decided on 18 because that's the age it is believed that people can make decisions for themselves. Personally I think it should probably be higher. In other countries that have a lower age of consent don't do it because they think the kids are mature enough to make that decision. They do it because they view the kids as similar to slaves who have to do what they are told. If it is a culture thing, then should culture be enforced through threat of death i.e. honor killings? They just use culture as an excuse to be shitty.
You just slammed everyone in Europe, excepting, ironically enough, Turkey.
Sure. I slammed anyone who thinks kids are mature enough to marry. There's plenty of states here in the US that fit the bill too.
If you're pegging "kid" at under 18, you're against almost every law on the planet.
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please as a quranist don't generalize us with sunnis
Sorry but: No god no master!
Don’t say sorry for that.
scripture is blasphemy
nothing written by man could even begin to conceptualize the word of the almighty
what you call the holy word is fiction written by men and conflated to be the word of god
if there's a hell: writing, reading, quoting, and promoting scripture seems like a great way to go there
trust the relationship with god you find within you and fuck all that manipulative scripture bullshit
sunni muslim countries don't allow that (i live in it [ if i leave it it's punishable by death]) sunni muslims also support that
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