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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children | HuffPost
This is appauling! In reading this, three questions come to mind. Perhapps people on this board will help to answer them
1. What the hell is wrong with a society that condones this?
2. What the hell is wrong with the parents who consent to it?
3. What the hell is wrong with the men who marry children
Yes some states are taking steps to curtail this, but it is still far to prevelant. We're supposed to be an advance, civilized society and a Constitutional Republic based on the rule of law. Yet both the social order and the law are failing these children.
It underage (18) marriage is to be allowed at all, it should be under the narrwest of circumstances and severely restricted as follows:
1.All cases should be revied by a family court judge who must require clear and convincing evidence of the necessity for it. ( Although I'm having trouble immagining what that would be)
2.Under no circumstances should the justification be religious beliefs or practices
3. All wouldbe "child brides" should be evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist to determine -to the extent posible- that they are participating voluntarily and not under duress.
4. The men (or adult) involved should likewise be assessed to determin that they are stable, responsible and non violent
5. Child brides (or grooms) should be no younger than 16.
6. The age difference should be limited to no more that 5-7 years. Here is a related article on that issue http://nypost.com/2014/11/11/the-bigger-the-age-gap-the-shorter-the-marriage/
7. All children, upon marriage should be legally emancipated as adults with all of the rights and responsibilities of adulthood
Even these measures are not fool proof by any means but it would go a long way twords protecting vulnerable children short of outright banning marriage under 18, which I would prefer.
Read the article and see what you think
This is appauling! In reading this, three questions come to mind. Perhapps people on this board will help to answer them
1. What the hell is wrong with a society that condones this?
2. What the hell is wrong with the parents who consent to it?
3. What the hell is wrong with the men who marry children
Yes some states are taking steps to curtail this, but it is still far to prevelant. We're supposed to be an advance, civilized society and a Constitutional Republic based on the rule of law. Yet both the social order and the law are failing these children.
It underage (18) marriage is to be allowed at all, it should be under the narrwest of circumstances and severely restricted as follows:
1.All cases should be revied by a family court judge who must require clear and convincing evidence of the necessity for it. ( Although I'm having trouble immagining what that would be)
2.Under no circumstances should the justification be religious beliefs or practices
3. All wouldbe "child brides" should be evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist to determine -to the extent posible- that they are participating voluntarily and not under duress.
4. The men (or adult) involved should likewise be assessed to determin that they are stable, responsible and non violent
5. Child brides (or grooms) should be no younger than 16.
6. The age difference should be limited to no more that 5-7 years. Here is a related article on that issue http://nypost.com/2014/11/11/the-bigger-the-age-gap-the-shorter-the-marriage/
7. All children, upon marriage should be legally emancipated as adults with all of the rights and responsibilities of adulthood
Even these measures are not fool proof by any means but it would go a long way twords protecting vulnerable children short of outright banning marriage under 18, which I would prefer.
Read the article and see what you think
