Florida bans child marriage

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This sounds like a terrible idea. It seems that to prevent a rare problem they are abolishing all marriage for those under 18. The existing law seems sensible enough. If particular parents or judges are idiots then you can’t fix that by changing every law.
 
FACT: Since 2013, Florida has married off almost 2,000 children. Eighty-seven percent of these child marriages have been to legal adults. Thirteen of these children were between 10 and 13 years old.

FACT: Girls who marry under the age of 18 are three times more likely to suffer physical abuse by their spouse.

FACT: Child marriage is linked to higher rates of dropping out of school, which leads to economic hardships and poverty.

FACT: Married children are vulnerable to coersive control. Child marriage is associated with high rates of domestic violence and abandonment. It limits children’s autonomy, ability to engage in critical social interaction and ability to develop of social support networks.

FACT: Seventy percent of child marriages end in divorce, a rate substantially higher than that of marriage between two adults.

FACT: Child marriage is linked to high-risk births for teen and preteen mothers and birth defects for their children, due to the health risks associated with childbirth at a young age.

For more information about forced and arranged child marriages in the US, check out Unchained at Last, a US non-profit seeking to end such marriages in this country.

Kudos to Florida for closing the legal loopholes on those attempting to marry children.
 
If you are old enough to have consensual sex, you are old enough to be married.

Many of your facts are really tied to teen pregnancy, not marriage.
 
Wow, the “Joseph married Mary” defense of sex with children. Didn’t think I’d see that outside the Roy Moore threads.
 
This story sickens me! It really does! What kind of future will that child have when the mother herself is a child and the father is a high school dropout?
 
robertmidwest said:
It is not as rare as you think.
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Maybe it is. This article ‘cites a case’. I don’t doubt this sometimes happens. But if a parent is selling off their kid for sex I’m not sure a law against marriage is going to stop that but it may stop good marriages.
 
I woman where I worked…she was 30…had an 18 years old son…here in Florida by the way…she wasn’t married though
 
Theo520 said:
If you are old enough to have consensual sex, you are old enough to be married.
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This law apparently allowed 11 and 12 year olds to get married. Do you think they were old enough to have consensual sex?
 
Inisfallen said:
This law apparently allowed 11 and 12 year olds to get married. Do you think they were old enough to have consensual sex?
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That’s not what I said then, right???

The law says you can’t marry for any reason until 18. Seems it would make more sense if it was parallel with what’s allowed for consensual sex, with parental and Judicial oversight.
 
Theo520 said:
hat’s not what I said then, right???

The law says you can’t marry for any reason until 18. Seems it would make more sense if it was parallel with what’s allowed for consensual sex, with parental and Judicial oversight.
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No, you’re right, it’s not what you said.

Still, I would be very uncomfortable with a law that permitted, say, a 14-year-old to get married, with or without parental consent. A 14-year-old is not old enough for consensual sex. Not at all. A 14-year-old can’t even give consent to sex.
 
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