Wow, MISSOURI did that???
MISSOURI??!??
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I'm thinking the tipping point has been reached, the pendulum is now moving away from conservatism, and we'll see little upsets like this as rural states begin to shift back. Missouri is facing a hell of a medicaid cut which they can't afford, that may ripple for a while.
Unfortunately they have short memory spans but eventually they'll flip for a generation, like the New Deal era. People will just give up on MAGA and go the other way.
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Republican men are probably throwing a fit that they won’t be able to legally groom and rape children for “family values” anymore
Abolish Marriage.
We don’t need the state or religious authorities dictating our relationships.
Amen, brother.
Need to do something for stuff like inheritance and visitation rights that's currently coupled (pun intended) to marriage.
Well in my ideal view we would abolish the state and abolish capitalism, so those things aren’t too much of an issue.
That would solve many problems, but stuff like "Who gets to visit you in the hospital?" and "who gets your personal belongings when you expire?" might need some thought. There are likely easy to solve, but still require some thought.
A will amd Power of Attorney do those without marriage. I've been with my partner for 15 years, unmarried, and haven't had a problem with it yet.
I was in a car accident and spent two weeks unconcious in the ICU, so its not like its untested either.
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"Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They're still married," Moon said in response to questioning by Democratic state Representative Peter Merideth.
Child brides aren’t old enough to divorce their husbands.
Old enough to marry but too young to divorce. That's the stupidest thing I've heard this week.
That’s the point - the power imbalance. Marry off young girls to men who can groom and control them. Daddy-husbands and child-wives. The Christian complementarian model sees women as essentially children anyway. Like Moon’s comment implies - if they marry you off at 12, you are never getting the independence to escape.
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Bet Republicans are furious
The year is 2025.......
And America is still this ass backwards.
Least some good news for once.
Well, glad I married off my daughter at 14 last year. Knew that was a good decision
My other wives are very happy with their new sister-wife, thank you for your spawn. The dowry is in the mail.
Shipping costs on 4.5 bags of funyuns probably wasn't that bad.
This was allowed before?!
Watch the Republicans set their hair on fire in response while introducing legislation to allow more child workers as well.
The party of family values.
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Checked if this was an Onion type article. So glad it isn't.
You mean they hadn't already?!
It's legal in a lot of the US, yes. Sometimes it requires approval from a judge, 4 states have no minimum age at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
The fact that California is one of those 4 is fucking mind blowing. They banned smoking and legalized weed but can't be bothered to stop child brides from happening????
I thought US was a 1st world country...
The first world / second world / third world classification was some system made up by the US during the Cold war to put the US at the top of their own tier list. It's always been silly
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I mean... this is reason to celebrate, but at the same time it's like saying you're giving up on blinding orphan puppies. You were doing what?
This is PROOF that America is On the DECLINE! We NEED MORE God in School's to REVERSE this COMMUNIST FILTH of OUTLAWING MARRYING CHILDREN! First THIS then what? We CANT have SEX with them?
-School Shooting Advocates AKA Conservatives!
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About fucking time you backasswards rednecks
Two questions:
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What was the age before?
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What's the lowest age permitted in all the States?
In many it used to be something like with parental permission. Basically child trafficking enshrined in law.
Human trafficking was the foundation of our great nation. Hell, there's still a lively Mail Order Bride market out of the States.
We can't stop. We won't stop.
I'll be curious to see if this law survives contact with the courts. Perhaps we'll even see destination weddings happening on the other side of the Arkansas border.
Dammit man, this hits close to home. I'm from Missouri and we used to talk shit on Arkansans all the time. Now I've lived in Arkansas for over a decade and can confirm... there are some sketchy parts. Lol, I need to escape.
Well, you can always come down and hang with me in Texas. nervous laughter
scrambling to hide from the Abbott gestapo patrol
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Studying the Child marriage in the United States Wikipedia page. Looking at the map legenda that says 'red = 0', thinking 'surely that means it's forbidden, right? right??' What the fuck.
In California, for instance, the general marriage age is 18, but children may be married with parental consent and judicial approval with no minimum age limit.[53
The fact that so many states allow marriage at 16 is concerning. 🫤
Still allowed in a lot of US states
Um, that's great and everything, but it's still too young. Your brain doesn't finish developing until you're 25, and the brain is the part of the body you're concerned about when you're making laws about when somebody should be able to make a big decision like getting married.
Technically you're right, but there's a whole load of things where you might be concerned about brain development. Enlisting, alcohol and tobacco consumption and taking out any sort of credit including student loans, comes to mind. I think actually you'll agree with me that those should all be restricted to 25+.
Now where things get less clear is voting. Why should people under 25 be allowed to vote if we don't consider them adult enough to make their own decisions in a lot of other cases? You could easily make the case that someone who can't yet decide their own future, should not be able to decide on the future of the nation.
The impact of this would be that the group of voters that has the most reason to care about the future, might lose their voice entirely. Maybe it's not a particularly active group, but they should be heard like anyone else.
This is one reason I don't think it's a great idea to start raising age minimums for things far above 18 based on the brain development argument.
Not to mention that marriage is a phase, they shouldn't really be letting people get married. Do you even know what those wedding cakes are made of? And what if someone bullies you?
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aw...
Where is the loop hole? Emancipation?
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