It’s Legal for 14-Year-Olds to Marry. Should It Be?

nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/a-push-to-restrict-child-marriages-in-new-york.html?_r=0

>ALBANY — For nearly 90 years, an uncelebratedNew York State lawhas largely escaped attention, allowing what would seem to be unfathomable in this day and age, and particularly in this state: child marriages, by the thousands.

>Since 1929, New York has allowed children as young as 14 to marry; 14- and 15-year-olds can do so with judicial and parental approval, and 16- and 17-year-olds can marry with mere parental consent.

>New York is hardly alone: Most states allow 16- and 17-year-olds to marry, and more than two dozen other states have no statutory minimum age at all.

>“I don’t think people even knew this,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said recently of New York’s marriage age requirement. “I think they are going to be shocked when they hear about the status of the law.”

>Marriages involving minors occur in New York far more than most would think: Between 2000 and 2010, nearly 3,900 minors were wed in the state, mostly in marriages arranged by parents whose religious or cultural traditions embrace the practice.

no slippery, no slope, they said.....

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Since younger people having sex triggers you so much let's ban fertility now we're at it.

AoC laws are to prevent whites from reproducing. How can you guys be so gullible.

How about government GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sex should have literally nothing to do with the government under any circumstance

Marriage shouldn't be legal until 25

Yes i think that system would work great in north America especially with judicial review for minors. it cuts down on premarital sex and if these 2 people stick it out due to the legal and immoral hassle of divorce they will probably stay together for the long haul

Age of consent should be set to 12. Marriage should be at least 16.

Hello my rare pope

Fuck off lolbertarian pedo scum

Explain why that's wrong

Because old men should not be allowed to groom and sexually exploit kids. Do I really need to explain this any further?

Yet another reason to hate NYC. AOC should be 18

Have you noticed it says that nobody marries 14 year olds except weird-ass religious sects?

Yes. Late marriage = degeneracy.

The average age of marriage in Europe and the US has historically always been around 25-ish.

Obviously I personally agree, along with the majority of society, so let's deal with it there.

It's a parents job to teach their kids proper sexual behavior, if a parent wants to regulate the sex lives of their child up to 21, by all means.

Why the fuck do you want the government to do that.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>W-we should ignore this cause muh white genocide and muh virgins

A 14 year old woman is capable of bearing children without difficulty. That is the age she would have become a mother in the past. She is not a child. Ok her mental faculties are underdeveloped but she's a woman.

He rused her with the promise of teddy bears?

>A 14 year old woman is capable of bearing children without difficulty

>implying 14 isn't the perfect breeding age

It was legal to bang 14 yr old here for the last 100 years. My great grandpa was 14 when he got married to a 16 year old.

I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as both parties are willing, and it's for marriage not just fucking.

Kids are able to work in coal mines at the time they turn 10. That is the age they would have started working in the past. They are not children

14 year olds aren't children.

Also I mean, using the term "14 year old" and "woman" in the same sentence indicates that you've probably never met a 14 year old IRL.

>Kids are able to work in coal mines at the time they turn 10
That was banned like 100 years ago?

That's completely true. 10 year olds can and did work. Labour unions got the government to put them in day-prison to stop them driving down wages.

Because I want the state to care for the welfare of children.

Yfw its all hasidic heebs

Differentiating between woman and 14 year old girl in a sentence probably means you've never met a woman.

That's turned out so well hasn't it

IT'S OK WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT

The opposite is true. Child marraiges were never common in Western Europe. The only people that practice it are mud "people" and semites

>In most of Northwestern Europe, marriage at very early ages was rare. One thousand marriage certificates from 1619 to 1660 in the Archdiocese of Canterbury show that only one bride was 13 years old, four were 15, twelve were 16, and seventeen were 17 years old; while the other 966 brides were at least 19 years old
>Additionally, the Church dictated that both the bride and groom must be at least 21 years of age to marry without the consent of their families; in the certificates, the most common age for the brides is 22 years. For the grooms 24 years was the most common age, with average ages of 24 years for the brides and 27 for the grooms

Hips don't get any wider

As I said, the average age of marriage in Western Europe then was somewhere in the late 20s, Eastern Europe being more like 18-20. For most of American history, it's averaged 25 and teen marriage was only practiced by impoverished crackers in the South and Appalachia.

JUST WAIT
JUST FUCKING WAIT
DON'T GO TELL ME IT'S TRUE LOVE IF YOU CAN'T EVEN WAIT A FEW YEARS
IT'S JUST DISGUSTING LUST FOR A KID
GODDAMNIT THIS MAKES ME MAD

I don't see an issue assuming both parties are under 18 when they marry. I started having sex when I was 14. I think a lot of kids do, but this is taboo for some reason.

>implying anyone kept accurate age records

Top kek are you 21 missy? "Yes daddy"

The female body doesn't finish growth until 19. Pregnancy and childbirth at 14 are dangerous and can carry serious complications.

Church and county records actually provide a very good estimate of the average age of marriage then.

Also FWIW, "Romeo & Juliet" was a morality tale warning against the dangers of teenage love.

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Even when you were 14, you probably didn't want to have sex with a 14 year old girl, you probably wanted to have sex with Lindsay Lohan or some porn model you saw on the Internet or something.

Propaganda

You were told by your town child rapist?

webmd.com/baby/guide/teen-pregnancy-medical-risks-and-realities

Oh, it's not propaganda or made-up bull that teen pregnancy is dangerous. In fact it's the leading cause of death for teenage girls worldwide.

I like you Ausie but you are going in to Canadian level of shitpost. Not funny, not edgy, just plain stupid.
Sage.

All pedophiles need to be brutally murdered ASAP.

The resident Sup Forums girl has spoken

Protecting a young woman's chastity should be up to the parent's not the state.

you know, if you're going to post a link you should probably actually read it first to check that it supports your argument. Because what it actually says is that the biggest medical danger with teenage pregnancy is that girls who get pregnant will try to hide it and won't come forward to get early pre-natal care.

So yeah, your perpetuation of the stigma surrounding teen pregnancy is getting teenage girls killed.

>In fact it's the leading cause of death for teenage girls worldwide.
>worldwide.
Well yeah, teen pregnancy isn't a good idea if you live in a mudhut village in India where all the children are so malnourished they don't hit puberty until sixteen and there's no proper medical care. But a fifteen year old in a first world country with access to decent medical care has a slightly lower risk of death than a twenty-five year old, and a significantly lower risk of death than a woman thirty-five years and older.

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Thank you based Britain

Someone who has taken fucking bio101

>14

14 is the age of consent in Serbia.

>with judical approval
Well, what's the basis for getting this judical approval? How often does it happen?
>16, 17 year olds with parental approval
While I think that most kids today are too fucking retarded to understand what they're doing if they want to marry at that age, at least there's some kind of safeguard here.

Alternatively if they got married early in life they might sort themselves out instead of becoming social media narscists

Hold up, you saying that only brown subhumans in Third World countries practice teen marriage? That says quite a few things right there.

Yeah the first world waits until the woman is completely infertile to have children. Real superior aren't we

That's true, but aside from the obvious fact that girls that young are too physically underdeveloped, most teenage girls are also too dumb to take proper care of themselves during pregnancy.

They're certainly better off financially especially if they both have jobs.

>women are too dumb at X age

Insert any X. Literally a retard tier version of a human being deliberately retarded down to the level of an infant so that they can look after infants without getting bored and throwing them out the window.

Woman AND children. That is the category.

Holy shit how retarded people are handing over control of society to the babysitter.

Teens fuck each other. Get pregnant. Parents and judge marry them. What did you expect?

I can tell the pedo is starting to run out of arguments...

>TWO teddy bears

female privilege

>Marriage
>parents approve
>in some cases judges review and approve
I see nothing wrong here.

Are you saying the parents and judges aren't working for the minor's best interest?

>They're certainly better off financially especially if they both have jobs.

Because 14-15 year olds have so much income to support a family?

women are cattle and need to be raised like a dog. do you want to train your dog from a pup or grab wild dog off the street that has rabies. feminist hate the idea of men teaching women to behave and not get 10 different stds. to a feminist they want women to be stupid whores who divorce men constantly for alimony and cheat with other men. that's their idea of freedom because they just want to destroy white men.

nothing makes a feminist more angry than one a rich white guy marries/dates an 18 year old. if they could go even younger then the feminist would probably commit suicide.

There is zero reason to have the age of marriage older than the age of consent.

This kiwi is probably some immigrant from a subhuman shitskin country where they have child brides.

It's not, though. Most girls that young would fall into the category of high risk pregnancy. Just because it's easy for them to get pregnant doesn't mean that they're good at carrying or delivering.

>How to make a few colonies into a superpower101

Lots of little white people as quickly as possible.

Fertility in women actually peaks at about 23, but that aside, having sex at 16 and under also carries a heightened risk of cervical cancer.

They can breed when their biology lets them. Nothing to do with pedophila. With literally any other animal this is not in question.

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>muh cervical cancer

Kys

Fucking shit, you probably didn't want to get married when you were 14 either. You probably wanted to play video games and skateboard.

I want to do those things now. No one ever wants to work. I guess we'll all just waste decades doing nothing for some arbitrary standard

I want to marry a tube of caulk

This should be federal law, the birth rate would skyrocket.

Anyone who thinks 14-15 is a grown adult has never met anyone that age IRL.

15 to 25 is the best ages for marriage. Lower and you will expose the potential mother with risk. Higher and you will expose the potential child with risk.

It certainly is better when they are all their teen years having casual sex and have a bunch of std and out of wedlock pregnancies.

Very rational and non degenerate.

Based post. The vast majority of women only want children and to look after them. The universal preference for dolls is evidence of this. As it stands they are forced into unsuitable education and work that makes them completely miserable.

Yes, create millions of single teen moms and unwanted babies. Great fucking idea. That would improve the quality of society much.

>"cause"
>raising age of consent to it's highest point ever

Why? You can't just have sec with a 14 year old, you have to marry her. It's not exploitation because you have to provide for her, not just use her for sex

Courts try anyone over 10 as an adult for most crimes.

>mostly in marriages arranged by parents whose religious or cultural traditions embrace the practice.
Aka sandniggers

Sand niggers are outbreeding whites 10:1

She's physically developed and fertile at that age. I want to claim her before they start pumping degeneracy and cultural Marxism into her brain

Makes sense to me

And that's a good reason to fuck kids?
Stick to sheeps, New Zeland.

Marriage is a dead concept and teens are getting knocked up every other minute, but oh let's have a moral panic about teenagers theoretically (but not actually) getting married in one state.

Teenagers aren't kids faggot

>She's physically developed
At 14? Not at all. Physical growth still has a ways to go yet at that age.

Why don't you reclassify anyone under 30 as a kid then call everyone pedophiles with your arbitrary categories

Use some objectivity. Or better yet pick up a biology text and read it.

>Or better yet pick up a biology text and read it

I have. That's why it's a bad idea for women to have kids at 14 and really any age before their 20s.

this "kids" will fuck anyway

t. Chud

If your old enough to breed I don't see why you shouldn't be able to marry. Hell I wish there were more teenage marriages so we'd get far less degeneracy and far more white people.

When I was 14 I wanted a gf

Waste of 6 years of fertility out of 20 if she's lucky, good idea. It's slightly more dangerous to have children after 26 so that shouldn't happen too right? What are we down to 6 year window? No wonder we're going extinct.

14 years old are unable to consent. Semantics are irrelevant. Call the martians if you want, I don't care. You still can't fuck them
>with your arbitrary categories
Your category is just as arbitrary as mine
>I'm attracted to 14yo so I should be able to fuck them
If I'm attracted to your mother am I free to come ove and fuck her? How about being attracted to dogs?
Every law is based upon "arbitrary categories" since we need to draw lines at a certain pont

Honestly, the idea that teenagers can't consent is ridiculous. The rest of the world should follow Japan's example.

Teen marriage is degenerate though. Notice that only white trash and brown shitskins do i.

In animals the age at which the animal can safely give birth is not an arbitrary category.