Source?

Pretty easy to find this information www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

That would be because it's not a reliable source. Anyone can publish a journal.

You are so desperate to defend child marriage. It's creepy as hell

www.unchainedatlast.org/united-state...

This group does not produce any evidence that anything they state is factual. There's no statistics no studies, and their "methodology" is not documented and deeply flawed. If there are 10 year old girls married in the US you would think Fox news/NYT would have published it.

www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Why her headline says she was handed over to a complete stranger is inexplicable unless she goes on to say she found out he wasn't who she thought he was and is speaking metaphorically. That said, yes there should be a lowest age limit w no exceptions - like drinking and voting. Agreed.

And this is related to Trump. Men like him use power to oppress those they deem weaker. Right now he is hiding his and other's pedophelia and child trafficking, he's trying to remove the requirement for priests to expose abuse, and taking money from the defunded human trafficking division for ICE.

No argument from me there.

She was 16, she dated him two months, he proposed and she said yes "thinking he was her savior." Her mother gave permission. He was 28 y.o., which is older than her, but young - and not grotesque. to be continued

Here's a quick research link. I cancelled my subscription to the NYT so I can't get every article. archive.nytimes.com/kristof.blog...

part 3 of 3, and & Kristof's opinion column - it wasn't a news report and that's a very important distinctin - was written in 2017. And his source and that group he relied on doesnt impress me as reliable - & the link is now 404'd. So, all things considered, I'm far more concerned all things Trump.

part 2 - and of the mother, who did nothing about it. The girl was in neutral (which is why 11 year olds shouldn't get married). The first judge refused to do it, they had to travel to another county. I don't see this as an epidemic problem in the US to be continued

Not to worry! I do subscribe, so I can. I believe there are occasional freak cases of 11 year olds being married like the one Kristof describes in his opinion column. But if you read it, her mother and her church, both pushed her into it to avoid a criminal trial of the rapist, (to be continued)

I read this article. I meant I couldn't search to find anything newer. This article has a link to research not just opinion. Child marriage in the US is not as unusual as you think. www.unchainedatlast.org/child-marria...

Unchained is not a grade A source, and their "research" is very flawed. I would want to see something from the UN or the Pediatric Associations, or the APA - not Unchained.

Your post is completely inaccurate. I don't know where you got that post from but it's false. Look up the states yourself and you'll see that.

www.tahirih.org/wp-content/u...

www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

All he's doing is disregarding every single thing he doesn't agree with; complete bullshit artist

Nonsense. All he's doing is pointing out when things are false, and requiring fact based sources. Try it some time.

Prove it. Any troll can sit there and yell "bullshit" at everyone else. Bring cites and data.

I don't have to prove anything to you. I call BS when I see BS like your first post which lists the wrong states having the wrong requirements about marriage. Instead of being a jerk, you should take the post down - and stop going to BS sources bec you like what they say better than the facts.

Pew Research is a valid, reliable source

I don't know about the statistics, but I recently learned that in 2017, New York raised the marriage age from 14 to 17. So child marriage definitely was a thing but not sure to what extent or if there's still states that permit child marriage.

If you don't know, you shouldn't post your opinions as factual. The age of marriage in NY was 14 until 2017 but 14-17 year olds had to have permission of a judge or their parents to marry, And the age to consent to sex was 17, so unless you married her, you weren't having sex w a 14 year old girl.

All marriages should be illegal before 18, but that's just my opinion (and of around 1/3 of the US atm). Sources for the OP: www.jahonline.org/article/S105... www.unchainedatlast.org/united-state... 19thnews.org/2023/07/expl... www.firstpost.com/explainers/u... www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...

Then your remedy in our system is to write to your elected officials, express that opinion and ask them to change the law. You could also start a lobbying group to call attention to it & collect signatures and contact your local news organization. That's how the system works, when it works.

Some of the links I posted lead to orgs that work tirelessly to have child marriages banned. But no, I disagree. The remedy is to elect officials who are aligned to the values of their constituents, like being against genocide and pedophilia. But 2/3 of the US politicians and their constituents...

...are not against it. And there is the main problem, from the OP. Why are there people not condemning pedophilia and genocide? And slightly off-topic: telling people that they need to engage daily with their reps or even spend money on lobbying to implement basic ethical, moral, and other...

...standards, makes representative democracy ineffective and meaningless, and direct democracy a panacea.

Your comment: "telling people... to engage daily with their reps or...spend money ...makes representative democracy ineffective..." is inane. I didn't say engage "daily" or "spend money." Your right - & responsibility - to communicate to your govt is the cornerstone of representative democracy.

It's not inane because the burden of communicating with the gvt is mostly on the US citizens, not their reps. And you didn't say it but that's what's implied: to be really heard, US citizens would need to communicate/lobby for every issue there is. Direct democracy could do that more efficiently.

www.walkfree.org/news/2025/ch... www.cbsnews.com/news/child-m...

I am not the person who posted the image that you initially responded to. The image mentions child marriage and having recently learned that it definitely existed in the 2000s, I shared what I had learned which wasn't an opinion nor was it incorrect. In fact, I looked into it further and some...

...states to this day do not have a minimum age for marriage, providing there is judicial approval. California is one such state. So while child marriage is definitely still a thing, republicans are not pushing for it to my knowledge, as much as we all want to call them pedophiles.

There is a whole slew of requirements for marrying under age 17 and/or without a high school diploma that would granted not make it impossible, but extremely unlikely to get a marriage license at, e.g. 14 in California: www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/juve...

I agree, I never said it was easy to marry a child in the states that allow it. It's still child marriage and, in my opinion, there is no valid reason to allow it at all. Regardless, this is all irrelevant to the image that someone else posted. Child marriage happens but the rest is unconfirmed.