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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can’t speak to the legality of it but I am from Eastern Europe and remember a lot of marriages in the 1990s where a 6 year difference is nothing. It wasn’t legal to marry before 18 but I knew couples who started dating when she was 14-16 and then got married when she was 18 and he would be like 25 or so by then. It was seen as a good thing, the girl is mature and successful blah blah.
FWIW the country had like 99% literacy rate so not exactly a shitehole. 
I am not surprised if it’s acceptable in Hispanic culture as well. Just more traditional societies.
It’s probably not a great setup but also doesn’t make my blood boil you know? Some people aren’t going to develop much educationally anyway. Maybe it’s something that suits them. [/quote]

I know that historically marrying girls off in their early teens was often done. But it doesn't mean it's right. It was convenient for patriarchies to have girls stay submissive and beholden to men, whether their father or their husband. So if society makes it look cool, what it means is that they're encouraging women to stay in that cycle.

I met my older husband at 19 and married him at 23, so I'm not against marrying young! But at least I knew what I was doing ;-)

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It’s their community and their traditions so whatever imho 
There will always be people on government benefits anyway
And many of these girls who tend to marry young and become mothers are not academically inclined so what else would they do with their lives? [/quote]

Islam allows the marriage of girls as young as age 9.[/quote]

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