In other countries though that is not the case and that is their custom. And I’m in no position to argue on some other cultures customs IN their country.
If its harmful to people then yes, you should. Child marriage, raping children, lack of women’s right, and murding LGBT is not acceptable, I’m not going to sit here and say “oh it’s their culture so it’s okay”, it’s fucked up and yes, they should change.
Okay but who decides if its harmful? Plenty of peoole get married at 18-20 and it fucks them up. Plenty of insanely rich old dudes marry 18 year olds. Does that mean we should increas the marriage age?
What about if we had people from another cukture that thought people werent adults until 30? Since that is justifiable as your brain is still developing until around that age. Would you then describe anyone that marries someone in their 20s as raping children?
Yes, and child sexual abuse, sexual debut, etc. They are mostly based on questionnaires but children who debut early have universally shitty outcomes in mental health, teenage pregnancy, STDs, depression and suicide, and even total lifetime earnings. Do a pubmed search.
No law is ever going to be perfect, but perfection is the enemy good here.
It’s pretty well researched, understood, and established that your average 9 year old has so much more critical mental development they still need to undergo than your average 18 year old in order to become functional adults, regardless of what actual official age we define that as being.
Yes, some 18 year olds may still be taken advantage of, abused, hurt etc., but those 18 year olds, on average, will have a much better chance of defending themselves from and overcoming the damage done by an abusive “suitor” than the average 9 year old would. That is both physically and mentally.
In this case, I think it is a good albeit imperfect law as it serves the majority of the people and cases. Of course there will still be those outliers it fails to protect, but it is still a “net good”.
If its harmful to people then yes, you should. Child marriage, raping children, lack of women’s right, and murding LGBT is not acceptable, I’m not going to sit here and say “oh it’s their culture so it’s okay”, it’s fucked up and yes, they should change.
Okay but who decides if its harmful? Plenty of peoole get married at 18-20 and it fucks them up. Plenty of insanely rich old dudes marry 18 year olds. Does that mean we should increas the marriage age?
What about if we had people from another cukture that thought people werent adults until 30? Since that is justifiable as your brain is still developing until around that age. Would you then describe anyone that marries someone in their 20s as raping children?
Hoards of scientific evidence decides if it’s harmful.
We have hoardes of data on the effects of child marraige?
Yes, and child sexual abuse, sexual debut, etc. They are mostly based on questionnaires but children who debut early have universally shitty outcomes in mental health, teenage pregnancy, STDs, depression and suicide, and even total lifetime earnings. Do a pubmed search.
No law is ever going to be perfect, but perfection is the enemy good here.
It’s pretty well researched, understood, and established that your average 9 year old has so much more critical mental development they still need to undergo than your average 18 year old in order to become functional adults, regardless of what actual official age we define that as being.
Yes, some 18 year olds may still be taken advantage of, abused, hurt etc., but those 18 year olds, on average, will have a much better chance of defending themselves from and overcoming the damage done by an abusive “suitor” than the average 9 year old would. That is both physically and mentally.
In this case, I think it is a good albeit imperfect law as it serves the majority of the people and cases. Of course there will still be those outliers it fails to protect, but it is still a “net good”.
Wow, defending child marriage… Not a good look.
Actually the opposite, im so against child marriage i think marriage under 30 should be illegal. Dont you think the same?