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1. NDlurker · 1790824641 · focus · HN ↗

   I don't get how child marriage can be legal. Like, yeah, they get permission from their parents. But does the fact that they're married negate other laws??? I mean, it's still rape. It's still like child abuse. Does marriage = emancipation?

   1. john_strinlai · 1790825079 · focus · HN ↗

      >I mean, it's still rape.

      im not in support of under-18s getting married, but, what?

      1. NDlurker · 1790825176 · focus · HN ↗

         Never heard of age of consent laws/statutory rape?

         1. john_strinlai · 1790825315 · focus · HN ↗

            if its not statutory rape before they get married, it doesn't suddenly become it afterwards.

            and, as far as i am aware, it requires judicial approval right now. presumably, if it were a case constituting statutory rape, the marriage wouldn't be signed off.

            this isn't about 9 year olds getting married to 30 year olds.

            1. NDlurker · 1790827210 · focus · HN ↗

               No age limits in Guam and Saipan. Age limit of 15 in ¿Kansas? according to a page someone linked to somewhere else in the thread. Also that site claims the youngest marriage in the US since 2000 was a ten year old.

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