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I think Phil married his wife when she was 16
It was fairly common back in the day... but that being said, IF i had a daughter, I dont think i would want that for her. 15 seems like barely past being a child.
My great-great grandmother got married at 15, my great-grandmother got married at 15, my grandmother got married at 15, my mother married at 18. All of them stayed married to the same man all their lives. Just saying. Back in the day, marrying at a young age was no big deal.
Thread from yesterday if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3106764/posts
I saw the clip and want to know what evidence they have for saying that’s Phil Robertson in the video and not just a southern sounding white guy with a beard? Its not like the left has not been known to lie before...
Back in the day, thats how it was done, so what? So where is the faux outrage about Muslim’s marrying 9 year olds????
Age of consent with parental consent in Louisiana is 16. Phil also indicated that they discussed this with her parents prior to marrying. The fact that they’ve been married for 50 years is testament that they made the right decision, even though it hasn’t always been easy for them.
So what? Besides the obvious fact that for the bulk of human history the marrying age for women was in the mid-teens (a 20 plus year old was considered past her prime) the people who wrote this and consider it scandalous probably think buggering adolescent boys is fine and dandy.
I would go so far as to suggest that when evaluating the idea in modern days are marrying at that age against the culture and maturity levels say 50-75 years ago. There would be a time when a “boy or girl” of that age would be an embarrassment to still be living at home.
Now we have “kids” still living at home in the parents basement until their 40 yr. old adults!
What changed? Why did it change?
What caused such a shift in cultural moors that we now have 40 yr. old basement kids?
It is somewhat amusing to read how we do not expect a 16 year old girl or young man to be able to “play house.”
Among the fishermen and shrimpers on the Gulf Coast back in the 50s and into the 60s girls would marry when very young but the grooms would be older and making a living already. A mother's ideal for her daughter was to marry her 13 or 14 YO to a widowed boat owner who also owned his own house. After a few years he would die and leave her with house and boat and maybe a child or two, some money in the bank, and she could remarry to whom she chose. In that culture everyone benefited thereby. I have known quite a few such. The bayou community I was familiar with way back when has been invaded by affluent folks in their McMansions who like to live on the "picturesque" bayous. The traditional community is now more like a rural slum, especially since the State and Federal governments have restricted shrimping and fishing to the point that only the big factory boats can make any profit from it and those are of companies that can afford the fees and corruption necessary to work. There are still marginal shrimpers, quite a few, actually, but a mother would not wish her daughter to marry one of them. The only ones that make a half decent living are smugglers and that trade is being interdicted way too often.
MSM giving Phil the anal exam. They will creep over his entire life looking for any ‘dirt’ or misstatements they can find.
Gotta knock him off that pedestal. Can’t have decent role model.
47 years later they’re still married and seem to be doing fine. Things were different 47 years ago as they were for me. Wife and I got married at 18. Went to school together all our lives and we just had our 40th in October... hoping for a lot more.
I know that having married me at age 22 (I was 23), my wife was well into spinsterhood by Phil’s standards, but we were on the young side in our crowd. My wife has put up with me for 30 years and counting. Hoping for at least another 30.
Generally, I agree with the overall sentiment - for folks who are moderately mature, marrying young is better, if circumstances permit.
I have to disagree with Phil on this one.
I believe their is a 3 tiered approach to staying out of poverty in America:
1. Stay off drugs.
2. Don’t get married or have kids until you’re in your 20’s.
3. Don’t have kids out of wedlock.
Stick to these 3 rules and your chances of ending up in poverty in this country are very slim.
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.
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.
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.