Only a generation ago, people were regularly ready for marriage by the age of 15, not 16, and still today many Wyoming couples are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary after having been married prior to 15.
A generation ago was anywhere between 1993-2003, depending on how long a person defines a human generation as. People celebrating 50 years or more of marriage got married much longer ago than a generation.
This really is the conservatives Year of the Child. In addition to child marriage, a new iowa child labor law will allow kids as young as 14 work in dangerous, otherwise banned, professions as long as it's part of their high school shop class. I'm not sure if that puts kids above or below prison labor. Also, the law exempts businesses from liability for child employees killed or injured on the job. Party of life folks!
To them, male generations are about 70 years, women, I dunno 12? It's like Woody in "Dazed and Confused", as he charms, "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
Sometimes, as in the case of human trafficking, this coercion comes from outside the family. Sometimes, it comes from the parents themselves. The Constitutional rights of children require that side-boards be in place to prevent such perversions.Steven Tyler laughs at your side-boards.
The law is some subjective-ass bullshit in the hands of religionists. If a 16 year old is not of age to sever a contract, the contract of marriage cannot be considered valid in the first place for the same reason.
Tangential, the pic appears to be for an infamous banned film. Per the lore, it was rejected by MST3K. No, they did not show the worst they could find...
Dominionist trash. Sometimes I wish the supervolcano that is Yellowstone would just blow and get it over with since these people (if people they are) will never change.
Your parent or guardian may marry you off, and you have to wait two years to ask for divorce. Tighten up the divorce requirements (I.e., make them even more difficult), and the talivangicals can have nothing further to say about ... well ... anything else. Our search for the most disgusting timeline continues apace.
Washington State requires that you be at least 17 to get married, at least 18 without parental consent. It allows for people younger than that to get married only in special circumstances, usually pregnancy or childbirth, and only after petitioning the court to grant a special license.
I really wish people would stop spreading that lie without even bothering to try to look it up. That's been the law for at least a decade, probably longer, so everyone has had time to double-check.
An actual toddler could get married in those states and it would be legal.
Robyn, I love you, and I love Wonkette. I have been reading here for 15 years and I've been donating monthly since you could pay to turn off ads. So please understand that I say this with love when I say that this is factually incorrect, irresponsible, and actively inflammatory for at least one of the states on that list, and it makes me wonder how many more of the facts in this article got here without any sort of fact-checking at all.
Only a generation ago, people were regularly ready for marriage by the age of 15, not 16, and still today many Wyoming couples are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary after having been married prior to 15.
A generation ago was anywhere between 1993-2003, depending on how long a person defines a human generation as. People celebrating 50 years or more of marriage got married much longer ago than a generation.
Marriage is a way for men (mostly) to control/ own, legally, their woman!
The whole state of Wyoming appears to be one giant, sucking hole. Not just the one in Jackson.
Had to stop reading when I got to the Holy Matrimony part.
Did incels write this drivel?
This really is the conservatives Year of the Child. In addition to child marriage, a new iowa child labor law will allow kids as young as 14 work in dangerous, otherwise banned, professions as long as it's part of their high school shop class. I'm not sure if that puts kids above or below prison labor. Also, the law exempts businesses from liability for child employees killed or injured on the job. Party of life folks!
To them, male generations are about 70 years, women, I dunno 12? It's like Woody in "Dazed and Confused", as he charms, "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
Sometimes, as in the case of human trafficking, this coercion comes from outside the family. Sometimes, it comes from the parents themselves. The Constitutional rights of children require that side-boards be in place to prevent such perversions.Steven Tyler laughs at your side-boards.
The law is some subjective-ass bullshit in the hands of religionists. If a 16 year old is not of age to sever a contract, the contract of marriage cannot be considered valid in the first place for the same reason.
When you drive through Wind River canyon it looks like the river runs backwards. That’s seems apt.
Tangential, the pic appears to be for an infamous banned film. Per the lore, it was rejected by MST3K. No, they did not show the worst they could find...
Dominionist trash. Sometimes I wish the supervolcano that is Yellowstone would just blow and get it over with since these people (if people they are) will never change.
Your parent or guardian may marry you off, and you have to wait two years to ask for divorce. Tighten up the divorce requirements (I.e., make them even more difficult), and the talivangicals can have nothing further to say about ... well ... anything else. Our search for the most disgusting timeline continues apace.
Washington State requires that you be at least 17 to get married, at least 18 without parental consent. It allows for people younger than that to get married only in special circumstances, usually pregnancy or childbirth, and only after petitioning the court to grant a special license.
I really wish people would stop spreading that lie without even bothering to try to look it up. That's been the law for at least a decade, probably longer, so everyone has had time to double-check.
An actual toddler could get married in those states and it would be legal.
Robyn, I love you, and I love Wonkette. I have been reading here for 15 years and I've been donating monthly since you could pay to turn off ads. So please understand that I say this with love when I say that this is factually incorrect, irresponsible, and actively inflammatory for at least one of the states on that list, and it makes me wonder how many more of the facts in this article got here without any sort of fact-checking at all.