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To: trapped_in_LA
it used to be common in the US to marry off girls as young as 12 or 13 years old

Oh!! Well.....that makes it OK then.

10 posted on 08/23/2010 7:40:11 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu

Typical “logic” of the pedophile Left

Roman Polanski said “Hey, everybody wants to have sex with young girls”

That makes it OK, then ???!!!

St Peter going to have a talk with that boy...


12 posted on 08/23/2010 7:42:13 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: laotzu

“it used to be common in the US to marry off girls as young as 12 or 13 years old”

No, it was not common. It was highly unusual. And it could not be forced.


16 posted on 08/23/2010 8:07:36 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: laotzu

Why not? The age people have traditionally gotten married at has varied all over the place so as long as they have hit puberty (typically around 13) it does not seem to have caused any harm and in most cases seemed to work fairly well for most societies in the past.

Just because you’re now used to 18 as the minimum age for getting married in the US does not mean that is some magical number arrived at by science or some such thing. It was a campaign by feminist back at the turn of the previous century along with a push to give women the vote and a push to outlaw alcohol. Well we’ve seen how the last two have turned out, the first one might not have been such a good idea either.


21 posted on 08/23/2010 8:33:54 AM PDT by trapped_in_LA
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