Do you think a 15 year-old girl should be able to get married?

And what are those responsibilities, exactly? Since apparently we're not talking about having kids or sex.
What does not recognizing a marriage—between two people who love eachother—actually do to stop the young couple from taking on responsibilities? Is it just that marriage "sounds" bad when they are young?

 

I'm not trying to be flip, but I thought this thread finally died a well deserved death?

For that reason, and also because anybody having to ask what a "committed relationship" means is somewhat suspect.....I choose to bow out of this thread.

Now of course if that yo-yo that was attacking Chris in this thread a couple weeks ago starts up on her again.....well then I reserve the right to jump back in.

 

Look, it's one thing if you don't believe a 15 year old should have sex under any circumstances. But many of the people here who vehemently oppose marriage are okay with them having sex, so how does that follow?

Let me ask these people something: If the girl gets pregnant, do you believe she should have a "choice" ?
What if she wants to keep the baby? How has preventing her from entering into marriage prevented her from taking on responsibilities?

 

There are many responsibilities. If you were truly a "married person" you would know this. It takes more than just love to make a marriage work.

 

This thread is about 15-year-old children being married. It is not about abortion. Stop.

If she wanted to keep the baby, that's fine. I myself was a teen mom. I still do not think that teens make the greatest of parents though. They are inherently selfish at that age. The world still revolves around YOU when you are a teenager. Entering into a marriage is just another commitment that a teen is not ready for.

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Lol! Thanks Brian. You're a good friend.

 

So you think it's better for them to have sex and have a baby and not be married than it is to be married??

 

That girls do not get married early on has caused much trouble in our world, now half the babies born illegitimately.

Bastards will destroy a society which raises them.
The cities will become crime centers and people will avoid them like plague.
Welfare will become necessary as will many Abortions, too.

Education and Church will suffer greatly.
And the economy will chase away investors who see the necessary socialism taking place in ever larger amounts.

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Fatherlessness destroys the nation:

CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census).
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. (Source: Center for Disease Control).
80% of rapist motivated by displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (Source: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 403-26).
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals A Report on the State of High Schools).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. Of Corrections, 1992).

These statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are:

5 times more likely to commit suicide
32 times more likely to run away
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
14 times more likely to commit rape
9 times more likely to drop out of high school
20 times more likely to end up in prison

Children from "fatherless families of single mother" homes are*:

15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
4.6 times more likely to commit suicide
6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers
24.3 times more likely to run away
15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions
10.8 times more likely to commit rape
6.6 times more likely to drop out of school
15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenage
73% of adolescent murderers come from mother only homes

Daughters who live in mother only homes are 92% more likely to divorce**

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http://www.cato.org/publications/con...-state-crime-0

 

No, I think it is better for them to not have sex or babies. However, you cannot stop them from having sex. You can stop them from being married though.

Why don't you be honest, most of the guys who impregnate teenagers have no desire nor plans on marrying them.

 

so which is it?

 

A teenagers mind is not fully developed. We cannot trust them to make such decisions.

 

I seriously see you are having difficulty resolving your positions. Once again if a 14 year old is old enough, mature enough about making a decision to kill her baby then why not about getting married?

Dodge noted, it's not about what you think it's about what the 14 year old thinks and why if she is mature enough to make a decision about killing her baby then why not about getting married.

Again if she is old enough and mature enough to make the decision about killing her baby then why not old enough and mature enough to make a decision about having sex, and it could be a 14 year old boy who got her pregnant.

Why the difficulty in resolving your positions?

 

I put no.That was more common when people married when still a teen. That's not the case now, so it's a lot more risky to do that.

 

This prevents adultery.

According my religion, a person can marry as soon as it reaches puberty... some hairs on the balls or tits grow.

my personal opinion is it is not goog to marry before 25.

 

In my opinion one of some problems in our Western society are more older, but less grown up couples. If a couple of (a) 15-years old teenager(s) is grown up enogh, I won't see any reson for not getting married.

 

You need to be more specific Anders. It's all dependent on culture.

I know a couple (Hmong) now in their 50s who were married he 17 and she nearly 15. Successful marriage with very strong family ties.