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.
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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.