[rightazrain]

Wrong. The age of consent has been changed to 16 with a parent’s permission. This law was enacted when the FLDS set up shop in TX a few years ago, knowing their track record with little girls.

[mountainbunny]

Wrong. The age of consent has been changed to 16 with a parent’s permission. This law was enacted when the FLDS set up shop in TX a few years ago, knowing their track record with little girls.

Thank you so much for the clarification.

Setting aside the plural marriage thing (which wrecks it from the get go on it's own), even with the law being changed to 16, they can't give their daughters to be married if the marriage is not what the daughter wants.

My understanding, from reading the widely published experiences of women who have left, is that the leaders decide on the marriages, and they take place even if the child disagrees and has to be forced.

Forcing children into abuse at the hands of an outside party is never legal.

[nomorelurker]

Thanks for correcting that. A discussion on what the minimum age to marry even with parental consent should be, can be had at another place and time. It does bother me, however, that the law was changed not because we had a statewide discussion on such a basic social policy but because someone was trying to thwart the actions of a few hundred people.