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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here again. She wasn't pregnant and [b]they are both Hispanic[/b] from a blue collar family. this is what both of them wanted but I am surprised that girls' mom and step-dad allowed that. [/quote]

I live in an area that’s about 75% Hispanic, most of my friends and my xH are Hispanic.

This isn’t uncommon. I know multiple women who dated older men as teenagers and ended up married to them very young. My best friend started dating her husband when she was 15 and he was in his 20s. My nanny was married by 18.

Many parents don’t really care, it’s just culturally accepted that girls get pregnant/married very young.

As PPs pointed out, it may not be a legal marriage. Hopefully not. Or perhaps she was pregnant but miscarried.

Personally I think it’s gross. I remember being 21 and the thought of dating a 15 year old would have been so gross to me. [/quote]

Definitely very prevalent in hispanic and S American culture and not Ok to be pushing minor girls towards marrying older men. I guess the parents and mom thinks that it is ok and their daughter would be settled but it also brings a generational shift in how their family is being raised and what they could achieve in this world. Your own growth and progress is done if you marry at that age and you would always be dependent on your man. Yikes[/quote]

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