I don’t get why a such law took so long, but late is better than never.
Wow, MISSOURI did that???
MISSOURI??!??
I’m thinking the tipping point has been reached, the pendulum is now moving away from conservatism, and we’ll see little upsets like this as rural states begin to shift back. Missouri is facing a hell of a medicaid cut which they can’t afford, that may ripple for a while.
Unfortunately they have short memory spans but eventually they’ll flip for a generation, like the New Deal era. People will just give up on MAGA and go the other way.
Republican men are probably throwing a fit that they won’t be able to legally groom and rape children for “family values” anymore
The year is 2025…
And America is still this ass backwards.
Least some good news for once.
Still allowed in a lot of US states
About fucking time you backasswards rednecks
Oh USA the land of liberty lol…
Checked if this was an Onion type article. So glad it isn’t.
Bet Republicans are furious
Well, glad I married off my daughter at 14 last year. Knew that was a good decision
My other wives are very happy with their new sister-wife, thank you for your spawn. The dowry is in the mail.
Shipping costs on 4.5 bags of funyuns probably wasn’t that bad.
Two questions:
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What was the age before?
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What’s the lowest age permitted in all the States?
It was 16 but only with parental consent and only with a marriage partner 21 or younger.
16 with parental consent is quite common. Mississippi I think is 15. Some allow marriage younger than this (some have effectively no minimum age), but with the requirement for consent to also be sought through the courts.
In many it used to be something like with parental permission. Basically child trafficking enshrined in law.
Human trafficking was the foundation of our great nation. Hell, there’s still a lively Mail Order Bride market out of the States.
We can’t stop. We won’t stop.
I’ll be curious to see if this law survives contact with the courts. Perhaps we’ll even see destination weddings happening on the other side of the Arkansas border.
Dammit man, this hits close to home. I’m from Missouri and we used to talk shit on Arkansans all the time. Now I’ve lived in Arkansas for over a decade and can confirm… there are some sketchy parts. Lol, I need to escape.
I used to live in Louisiana. Never felt uncomfortable there but the few times I went into Mississippi or Alabama terrified me. You’re looking around at swamp land as far as the eye can see and realize that it would not be hard to hide a body.
Well, you can always come down and hang with me in Texas. nervous laughter
scrambling to hide from the Abbott gestapo patrol
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This was allowed before?!
Most US states allow it with parental consent.
In theory it’s a holdover from times when age based consent was crazy liberal ideology, which for most of the red states means like 1990.
Watch the Republicans set their hair on fire in response while introducing legislation to allow more child workers as well.
The party of family values.
I mean… this is reason to celebrate, but at the same time it’s like saying you’re giving up on blinding orphan puppies. You were doing what?
“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married,” Moon said in response to questioning by Democratic state Representative Peter Merideth.
Child brides aren’t old enough to divorce their husbands.
Old enough to marry but too young to divorce. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard this week.
That’s the point - the power imbalance. Marry off young girls to men who can groom and control them. Daddy-husbands and child-wives. The Christian complementarian model sees women as essentially children anyway. Like Moon’s comment implies - if they marry you off at 12, you are never getting the independence to escape.
aw… <sad banjo music>
Studying the Child marriage in the United States Wikipedia page. Looking at the map legenda that says ‘red = 0’, thinking ‘surely that means it’s forbidden, right? right??’ What the fuck.
In California, for instance, the general marriage age is 18, but children may be married with parental consent and judicial approval with no minimum age limit.[53
The fact that so many states allow marriage at 16 is concerning. 🫤