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"Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson urged marrying 'em very young in 2009 video [my title]
Daily Mail (London) ^ | 12/30/13 | James Nye

Posted on 12/31/2013 5:07:43 AM PST by foreverfree

My parents got hitched right after they both turned 23, after my dad graduated from college and started his teaching career (my mom was already a bank teller). I (their lone child) was born 11 months later.

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To: ImNotLying
Back in the day, marrying at a young age was no big deal.

Marrying young was what made marriages work better. My son married a girl with a living and not very old great grandmother 8 year ago. Moomaw is still healthy and has a while to go. My granđaughter thus has a living great great grandmother and my eventual great grandchild could well have a living GGG grandmother. The menfolk in that string haven't done so well.

41 posted on 12/31/2013 6:33:29 AM PST by ThanhPhero (Khách sang La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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To: ThanhPhero

dang, I am screwed!!! my wife and I were both 29 when we married... first each. but so far 13 years later and it just gets better. I am not sure age has that much bearing. Its more of a matter of two people wanting to work together to make things work, cause there will be bumps in the road.


42 posted on 12/31/2013 6:36:58 AM PST by wyowolf
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To: EBH

They’re.
Mores.


43 posted on 12/31/2013 6:38:30 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: EBH

16 year olds not being ready to “play house” indicates a lot of wasted years i.e. “adolescence.”


44 posted on 12/31/2013 6:39:53 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: foreverfree
How many of you wish the media had been this diligent vetting Obama as they are in helping Americans with their TV preferences?
45 posted on 12/31/2013 6:54:05 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: foreverfree

No worse that the bad PR Jerry Lee Lewis got for marrying his under aged cousin. They had to have parental consent, as most states have that law.


46 posted on 12/31/2013 7:01:48 AM PST by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: foreverfree

my wife for the past 60 years graduated from HS and a month later we married. She was 17. She is the mother of four children, has a masters degree and a retired educator. She is the most fantastic wife in the world, IMHO.


47 posted on 12/31/2013 7:07:32 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: foreverfree

my wife for the past 60 years graduated from HS and a month later we married. She was 17. She is the mother of four children, has a masters degree and a retired educator. She is the most fantastic wife in the world, IMHO.


48 posted on 12/31/2013 7:07:50 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: sitetest
at age 22 (I was 23), my wife was well into spinsterhood

In Viêt Nam the traditional marrying age was around 14-15 for girls and 16-19 for boys. The Communists who do not meddle in marriage practices much at all did decree that females must be 18 to marry. Outside of the big cities (big cities are a lot alike everywhere) that means that many defacto marriages become de jure when the wife turns 18. There is a family ceremony (quiet church wedding for Catholics) when the marriage actually begins with big engagement and legal wedding ceremonies when the bride turns 18. Many families do observe the law and keep their daughters unmarried until 18. That results in a drastically narrowed window of marriageabliity for the girls. Their prospects diminish until about 26 when they disappear or become matters of desperation. After that age a woman can pretty much hope only to be a rich man's second wife or get a loser for a husband. Most such women stay in their families as maiden aunts, which is not a bad deal in itself, or manage to set themselves up with trades like sewing or selling in the market. Or, if lightning strikes, a heretofore spinster might meet an American man and after proper vetting by the family, marry him. American men are the dream of many mothers for their older unmarried or widowed daughters.
My friend Art, the successful attorney who got divorced and stripped by his attorney wife, rather than kill himself, which he considered, went back to visit and reminisce in VN where he had been to war many years ago. A conniving mother and father trapped him (he never suspected) into marrying their widowed daughter who had a child. It is the best thing that could have happened to him. He has been there for 8 years. I don't think he will go ever back. When he told me about his amazing good luck and after I had met the in-laws, I knew how it had come about but I have not told him. The in-laws are retired party functionaries so he doesn't have to worry about visas and the like. He is retired on his SS in Nha Trang now with his delightful wife and daughter.

49 posted on 12/31/2013 7:14:44 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: pollywog

You’re.


50 posted on 12/31/2013 7:17:43 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: foreverfree

In the America of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, that would not have seemed strange at all.


51 posted on 12/31/2013 7:27:04 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PapaBear3625
My own youngest daughter married late, 26, and gave up a very well paid job to do so because she wanted to have children and to raise those children, She is 33 now, has two and all are living with her in-laws on some acres in Maryland. She loves it and does not miss the vanished income. She has chickens and a vegetable garden and is loving the cultural regression. I wish I could see the kids a bit more often, though.
52 posted on 12/31/2013 7:31:54 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: ThanhPhero

I can remember when a 16 year old boy was working for a living.


53 posted on 12/31/2013 7:39:19 AM PST by sport
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To: wyowolf

There are, rules of thumb and guidelines and happy exceptions.


54 posted on 12/31/2013 7:43:53 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Carbonsteel

What is poverty?


55 posted on 12/31/2013 7:44:25 AM PST by sport
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To: ThanhPhero
Marrying young was what made marriages work better.

Girls are biologically designed to bond with the man they are having sex with. Too many cycles of bond/get-dumped are bad for the ability to bond. Marrying young helps the ability to fall deeply in love and stay bonded.

56 posted on 12/31/2013 7:46:35 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yes.


57 posted on 12/31/2013 7:47:33 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: KoRn

Maybe is just an obviously successful way to get out of chores.....

Yep, it takes more effort to teach one’s off-spring than to just do it for them.


58 posted on 12/31/2013 8:00:47 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: arthurus

You are right! I stand corrected and shall not forget this correction. lol
Happy New Year....


59 posted on 12/31/2013 8:01:09 AM PST by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: jsanders2001

BINGO!


60 posted on 12/31/2013 8:03:11 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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