Posted on 02/17/2023 9:56:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
Akbar Ali you say, ‘eh???
When I first moved to Hawaii legal age of marriage was 14 for girls and 16 for guys.
they made it 16 years for girls and guys some time in the early 2000’s.
Hard to believe India is stricter than Banana Republic Hawaii.
I think my wife and I married at age 21 in 1977.
we are the same age for a few months of the year.
Still married.
We made better decisions than our parents did.
My mother had 4 husbands. Glad she didn’t pick out my wife.
My great-grandmother arrived in Connecticut in 1872 from Millstreet, Cork, Ireland at the age of 15. She came with her husband and 2 year-old son.
At age 22, she was a widow with 3 children.
“...At age 22, she was a widow with 3 children.”
People were not spoiled brats in those days, hunh?
Of course, it's hard to be sure about such things, as they occurred such a long time ago.
I think I may have married at age 23 in 1976, but I'm not sure. It may have been when I was age 25 in 1975.
Long time ago, as I said.
Regards,
Ok, I’ll bite on this apple… why do you “think” you married at 21 and not actually know how old you were? Your post is one that makes a person go, hmmmmm…
Arranged marriages fare better than American style.
Do they?
Seems like it comes down to legal sanction. Mix any of it with “no-fault” divorce and what would happen?
Married in August, birthday in October so I wasn’t ofically 22 yet.
“I think” is far better than I believe.
What you actually “know” is a schema your brain makes up to make thimgs seem real.
Want to talk some more philosphy?
How about why you think 2+2 = 4 and that is a complete act of faith?
My first university major was mathematics.
Aloha freind.
This was much more common 100+ years ago. My great grandmother was forced to marry at 12. This was in Ukraine. She stayed married to my great-grandfather until his death even after they moved to the US. Different times, different cultures.
When a girl is poor, getting married to a guy with a good job is a way out of poverty.
It’s a better solution than what we do in the US, where young girls would get pregnant, so as to qualify for government cash, and raise fatherless kids.
Your Flux capacitor needs adjustment if you cannot fix an important date.
How have you been able to live with a woman and not be 100% certain of your wedding date?
I’m pretty darn sure it was August 29, 1977.
a day that lives in infamy.
I gues my sublime humor escapes you,
Bra.
Wow, such horrible, horrible poverty in India.
(Too bad they don’t have airports to live in.)
You shouldn't be surprised when a poor woman gets upset when the breadwinner of the family gets taken away, leaving her to figure out how to get money to buy food with.
Americans don't understand poverty. Real poverty is when you have to watch your baby starve to death in your arms.
I knew it was bad there, but didn’t realize how bad. Talk about failed government !
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