Pennsylvania in the US Signs Ban on Child Marriage Bill 🚫👧

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Pennsylvania became the third state in the U.S. to ban child marriage as Governor Wolf signed a bill Friday prohibiting issuing of a marriage license to anyone under the age of 18. And on May 6th, the Minnesota Senate unanimously passed a bill outlawing child marriages, which is expected to be signed into law in August. Currently, there is no federal law regarding child marriage, and the only other states with an outright ban on child marriage are Delaware and New Jersey. According to advocacy group Unchained at Last says that 77% of minor girls who got married in the U.S. between the years of 2000-2010 were married to adult men.

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Source: Pennsylvania governor signs bill banning child marriage, similar legislation passes in Minnesota Senate
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I was going to say that it was outrageous that at this point in history sucha ban is being applied (i was assuming minimum marriage age in the States was 18 or close); then, I checked the legal mariage age in Venezuela and it happens to be 15 for the girls and 16 for the boys. It is still, in my opinion, too early; I mean, people at those ages are still children (both physically and mentally). They lack experience and maturity (even kids who work form early age and have been able to grow without parents or any of those extreme cases).
I think that legislations should be changed in that particular aspect so that maturity and independence become part of such an ambicious and important stage in peole's lives (for those who have it as an option or an obligation).
What Rivka added is really important to consider and it adds up to my concern. The fact that a minor can marry but cannot divorce is outrageous (along with all the other limitations). Those are the kinds of legal contradictions I just can't understand. Lawyers and lawmakers can be so meticulous when it comes to screwing you up, but they can't find ways to be meticulous about giving you a break!

Well, the concern about teenage minors being able to marry before 18 but not allowed to divorce before then can be easily solved. If a minor can break out of a contract before age 18, then change the law so that a minor can easily break out of a marriage before 18. However, don't eliminate their option to get married altogether. There are circumstances that do warrant a teenager getting married before their eighteenth birthday.

I can understand someone being opposed to child marriage (marriage of children under 11 years old). However, there is a world of a difference between adolescents and prepubescent children. Even the science agrees.

Hola @atheistrepublic. Es genial que existan personas preocupadas por el bienestar de los niños y niñas en todo el mundo.
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Hello @atheistrepublic. It's great that there are people concerned about the welfare of children all over the world.

Don't fall for the propaganda that these men-hating pseudo-feminists spread all around. Fraidy Reiss of Unchained At Last and Jeanne Smoot of the Tahirih Justice Center don't really care about the well-being of adolescent girls or about anything other than their own agenda. These women are evil misanthropists.

Now, if we can only get the state of Pennsylvania to stop taking people's children away from them and putting them into for profit homes.

(Google "kids for cash" for clarification, if you feel like going down that rabbit hole.)

Now that Governor Tom Wolf has outlawed any adolescent girl from getting married before the age of eighteen, it is going to be much easier for social services agencies to wrongfully remove babies from their underage mothers. If these girls don't have the fathers of their babies to stand by them as their husbands against social services agencies that do this, they will be more vulnerable to such injustices. Governor Wolf is a crappy leader. Governor Wolf is not a leader at all.

So can you get married before you can drink or vote in some states? The concept of what make you an adult seems to vary a lot. Of course kids are going to have sex when they want, but getting into a legal marriage too young is bad. Waiting a couple of years lets you get past some of the early issues. There will still be plenty of marriages that don't last long.

Just because teenage marriage before 18 may be legal in certain state jurisdictions and should remain as such in my humble opinion, it doesn't mean that society has to encourage it. At the same time, I have much more respect for these men who marry these adolescent girls to seal their future together than I do for these deadbeat teenage fathers in middle school and high school who turn these young girls into single mothers on welfare.

I honestly think that child marriage should remain banned. Seriously marriage involves more than meeting a partner and professing love, it entails more and I think you need to live a little i.e get to atleast 18 or 20 years of age to really get to know about marriage and the magic involved to be successful in it.
My thoughts though

Yeah, but this move on the part of Governor Wolf is going to cause a lot more problems than it will remedy. Besides, teenage marriage is not the same thing as child marriage. They both deserve to be treated as different entities.

An absolute and correct measure.

Interesting post @atheistrepublic. Above all to find out a little bit about the laws of the country where we live and to contribute with opinions about them... Thank you for sharing it.

Interesante post @atheistrepublic. Sobre todo para indagar un poco en las leyes del país donde vivimos y aportar opiniones al respecto… Gracias por compartirlo.

Welcome to the Stupid States of America.

Yeah, we can't have knowledge going from old people to young people, they might not do what we trained them to do with all that skooling,...

If my viewpoint of marriage was that it was a lifetime enslavement to obey, then I might take the point, but that isn't what happens.

If that young person finds that the deal is better down the street, who are you to interfere in their freedom?

It's better to stay in an abusive household because the person that cares about you timed out of respectability? Seriously?

This is a very emotional topic, blanket edicts will not work here.
Please, let folks make their own decisions for themselves, eh?

It's called freedom, icymi.

Agreed.

It's all about men-hating pseudo-feminists seeking to control men. Fraidy Reiss runs Unchained At Last, and she has no sons. Therefore, what does she care how these laws will adversely affect men? Governor Tom Wolf is a crook who should never have been elected in Pennsylvania.

It's just another double standard. Lawmakers in New York believe that it's okay for someone to be automatically tried as an adult at 16 years old, but they don't believe that anyone should be allowed to get married under any circumstances until 18 years old.