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Topic	Question about age of consent and marriage.
_AdjI_ 07/21/19 1:16:54 PM #29:	LinkPizza posted... _AdjI_ posted... dioxxys posted... Sulugnaz posted... This is a creepy fucking topic. I mean if your intentions are a life long relationship I don't see the issue. If you're intending to enter a lifelong relationship with somebody who hasn't finished high school yet, that is itself an issue. What if they finished fast. Like skipped a few grades... Then they're still going to be 16. At one level, the "age is just a number" philosophy has some merit, but when you're dealing with numbers that small, it's a number that's very strongly correlated with life experience and maturity. There are very, very few 16-year-olds out there that are mature enough that a healthy, reasonable adult should want to commit to a lifelong relationship to them, especially when you consider that marriage is typically preceded by a year or so of engagement and a couple years of dating (so that person was 13-14 when the relationship began). Exceptions exist, but it's not like waiting a couple years for the formality that is marriage is going to ruin those, especially when you consider that the whole "starting a family and running a household" thing that marriage's tax breaks are meant to facilitate isn't going to get started until after high school (one would hope). More often than not, "I want to marry this 16-year-old" means "I want to pin this girl down with a kid and the commitment of marriage before she grows up and realizes she can do better than me," which is turbo-creepy. The exceptions that exist can work around the laws by simply waiting a year or two, which really isn't a big deal. <cite>_AdjI_ posted [p:924984937] in Question a... [t:77877980]...</cite> <quote><cite>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote><cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote><cite>dioxxys posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Sulugnaz posted...</cite> <quote>This is a creepy fucking topic.</quote> I mean if your intentions are a life long relationship I don't see the issue.</quote> If you're intending to enter a lifelong relationship with somebody who hasn't finished high school yet, that is itself an issue.</quote> What if they finished fast. Like skipped a few grades...</quote> Then they're still going to be 16. At one level, the "age is just a number" philosophy has some merit, but when you're dealing with numbers that small, it's a number that's very strongly correlated with life experience and maturity. There are very, very few 16-year-olds out there that are mature enough that a healthy, reasonable adult should want to commit to a lifelong relationship to them, especially when you consider that marriage is typically preceded by a year or so of engagement and a couple years of dating (so that person was 13-14 when the relationship began). Exceptions exist, but it's not like waiting a couple years for the formality that is marriage is going to ruin those, especially when you consider that the whole "starting a family and running a household" thing that marriage's tax breaks are meant to facilitate isn't going to get started until after high school (one would hope). More often than not, "I want to marry this 16-year-old" means "I want to pin this girl down with a kid and the commitment of marriage before she grows up and realizes she can do better than me," which is turbo-creepy. The exceptions that exist can work around the laws by simply waiting a year or two, which really isn't a big deal.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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