Arranged Marriage? (1 Viewer)

Ahsoka · 16 April 2023

litc said:
The ten year old girls it says was 2000 - 2010

but no I know a saw a recent article in high school

but here are some general stats ig

US child marriage SHAME: girls in mid-teens still wed older adult men

Girls in their mid-teens get trapped in abusive unions because they can be seen by police as child runaways, get rejected from women's refuges and can be too young to start divorce proceedings.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Honestly she might’ve been 11 or 12 and not exactly 10 and I forgot the age and so can’t find the article

So messed up, people who object to raising the marriage age should be searched/put on a watchlist imo

StirFriedPanda · 16 April 2023

Vikki said:
So messed up, people who object to raising the marriage age should be searched/put on a watchlist imo

In this day and age there is zero reason why the age of consent for marriage and being a legal adult shouldn't match.

litc · 16 April 2023

Vikki said:
So messed up, people who object to raising the marriage age should be searched/put on a watchlist imo

Oh wow

since you make weird laws threads I thought of you

but rlly my mom would make threats like “do well in school or you can drop out of high school and marry someone much older like your grandma” and like she legally could’ve made me marry an old man at 16, she was prob more trying to scare me than being serious though

another thing is the grandma in question is my dads mom so that makes him upset

Ahsoka · 16 April 2023

litc said:
Oh wow

since you make weird laws threads I thought of you

but rlly my mom would make threats like “do well in school or you can drop out of high school and marry someone much older like your grandma” and like she legally could’ve made me marry an old man at 16, she was prob more trying to scare me than being serious though

another thing is the grandma in question is my dads mom so that makes him upset

The fact that that can e used as a threat also feels messed up to me (not saying your mom is bad, just that that type of a culture is eh. Threats are bad enough when small but if it’s a threat for something with major life long consequences like that yeah idk)

litc · 16 April 2023

Vikki said:
The fact that that can e used as a threat also feels messed up to me (not saying your mom is bad, just that that type of a culture is eh. Threats are bad enough when small but if it’s a threat for something with major life long consequences like that yeah idk)

But yeah it’s bad

it would look bad to the rest of the family so she wouldn’t ever do it tho, doing bad in school or dropping out and getting a ged instead or smth you can hide, getting married at 16 you can’t

There’s a bunch of things she really did well or does well and I think is supportive and all but a bunch of things I think aren’t and it’s not mutually exclusive

not sure abt the relevance but once when I said I wished I could be as hardworking as her, like I was tryna compliment her she said “at least you’re cute”

she has genuinely been supportive and helpful lately so it’s not really an all or nothing thing

My parents are weird with threats like my dad when I would do smth he didn’t like as a little kid (like single digits) he would “disown” me and say I’m not your dad anymore, walk away, and not talk to me for about a day

but yeah my dad doesn’t like it cuz it’s like looking down on my grandma, but that is legitimately the reason she got married at 16. She dropped out of high school so her parents made her get married at that time since she wasn’t going to/didnt want to continue her education(my grandpa was like 30)