[wideawake]

The Islamics also marry their daughters off as children, right after puberty, for maximum childbearing potential. If you don't allow your 11 or 12 year old daughter to marry, are you as bad as the Islamic terrorists and are your actions risking our future as a free society?

Setting aside the fact that that is simply not true in 90% of the Muslim world, it doesn't matter.

Societies with decent standards of medicine are quite capable of not only replacing themselves but growing at a very good clip if 80% or so of the female population have three children each.

One does not need to start having children immediately after menarche.

A normal Western woman is quite capable of marrying in her twenties and having three children.

[steve-b]

Sorry, but you don't get to have it both ways.

Either personal preferences are to be respected (in which case there is no reason to pay any attention to your entire line or argument) or not (in which case, how many goats would you like for your 12-year-old daughter?)

[mysterio]

Societies with decent standards of medicine are quite capable of not only replacing themselves but growing at a very good clip if 80% or so of the female population have three children each.

So you're not about to marry off your young teenage daughter so she can start having babies, I take it. You're making me suspicious. Your hesitation makes me think you might be one of the terrorist sympathizing contraceptive users who want the Islamic population to outstrip ours.