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).
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).
Exactly! They are destroying the innocence of these children.
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.