[HollyB]

I think its an insensitive and callous thing. No girl is ready at that age. But, these people think its better that way since she doesn’t have the maturity to know better...she can be controlled and manipulated to what the man wants her to be. It’s not real important that she understands her own self and interests. Her own desire for her future. Because at that age not many people know. I’m disgusted at the primitive mind set

[Stingray]

“I think its an insensitive and callous thing. No girl is ready at that age. But, these people think its better that way since she doesn’t have the maturity to know better...she can be controlled and manipulated to what the man wants her to be. It’s not real important that she understands her own self and interests. Her own desire for her future. Because at that age not many people know. I’m disgusted at the primitive mind set.”

Quoted for truth!

[MrEdd]

You are not in a position to pontificate that no girl is ready at that age.
You may assert you yourself were not mature enough at that age, but maturity develops from shouldering responsibility.

Many others are tending younger siblings and changing diapers by eleven. Cooking too.

There are a lot of hardships in life that force people to grow up. They aren’t all able to pretend to be children.

[Stingray]

Again, the gist of his remarks are not about marriage per se: they’re about marriage as a means to CONTROL another person!!!

Absolutely horrible and VERY un-Christ-like, and I cannot believe there are people here who support such a view while they condemn Muslims for doing the very same thing!!!

Hypocrites!

[freedomfiter2]

My mother married the first Saturday after her 16th birthday. My parents are still married 52 years later.

[sport]

Back then they were. If they were boys in the family, they helped the mother and father earn a living. There was no welfare for everyone and those getting welfare were looked down on. Most people would have rather been dead than on welfare. People did what they could to make a living. they worked in the fields. They pulled moss. They pulled gophers[tortoise] and sold them. They fished, gigged frogs and sold them. They followed the crops. While the mother, father, and sons were earning a living, the girls were taking of the house, cooking the meals, and tending to the younger children. If the family had no girls, they took their children to the field with them.