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To: frogjerk

You can cry Kinsey all you want, but not long ago 12 year olds could legally marry. PS: I think that means they could have sex with their spouse.


11 posted on 02/10/2006 7:01:25 AM PST by bigsigh
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To: bigsigh

And slavery used to be legal also.


40 posted on 02/10/2006 7:30:44 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: bigsigh

When people's life expectancy was about 40 or a little more, early marriage was necessary. My 12 year old son still plays with Legos.


41 posted on 02/10/2006 7:30:49 AM PST by Politicalmom (Must I use a sarcasm tag?)
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To: bigsigh

When were kids allowed to marry at age 12 in the US? You are just sayin'...


78 posted on 02/10/2006 8:05:36 AM PST by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: bigsigh

See:

Lewis, Jerry Lee


110 posted on 02/10/2006 9:35:58 AM PST by RockinRight (Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
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To: bigsigh
You can cry Kinsey all you want, but not long ago 12 year olds could legally marry. PS: I think that means they could have sex with their spouse.

My guess is that it has been at least 60 years or more since that was legal. Remember in the 1950s Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin who was 13 or14. The press had a fit and so did the public.

161 posted on 02/11/2006 9:01:47 PM PST by jamaly (I evacuate early and often!)
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