Kentucky is Mighty Proud of Their Teen Brides
So, there’s Kentucky. You know, where a man’s gotta do what man’s gotta do and woman’s gotta get married at 16 years old.
Kentucky Republicans killed off a bill designed to limit child marriage. Anna know why? Because it’s damn anti-American to restrict what a parent can do.
As it stands, minors in Kentucky can marry at 16 or 17 with a parent’s permission and teens under 16 can marry with a judge’s permission. The new bill would change this to 18 but allow 17-year-olds to marry if they got permission of a judge and the age difference between the spouses was less than four years.
Parents with better things to spend money on than a 16 year old girl, can now marry her off to a predator or Kentucky’s version of Roy Moore, with only a signature.
Sumbitches.
Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.
An’ son, our daughter specks to finish her drivers ed classes in a month or two! Then, after she gits her license she kin just forget about that elite public schooling, and drive herself down to a mostly full time job makin’ twist cones at the Dairy Queen.
Love those twist cones. The best o’ both worlds.
1That this is still going on in America is shocking and abhorrent.
2It’s child abuse and cannot continue. Rethugs, hang your heads in shame!
Anybody want to guess how many of those minors getting married are boys?
Yeah, I know, there’s always the female teacher having it away with a 15-year-old boy, but not many compared to the other way.
3Recycled Arkansas but now applies to Kentucky: If they do marry and end up divorced are they still cousins?
4A Kentucky boy runs into his house and proclaims, “I’ve found the girl that I’m gonna marry! And she’s a virgin!”
Incensed, his father pounds his fist on the table.
“There’s no way you’ll marry that girl! If she aint’ good enough for her own family, she ain’t good enough for ours.”
5Great. Married at 16, how many women have the skills or education to support themselves and their children if the marriage doesn’t work out? They are too often left with no option but to stay in a bad marriage. Way to condone sexual predators and child abuse, Kentucky!
6KY. Fast Horses and slow People.
7Three decades ago I read a small newspaper article about a Kentucky man who was in court charged with raping his very young teenage sister. During the trial, his father leaped from his seat and yelled “Since when is it against the law to have sex with your sister?” The defense team literally carried him out of the courtroom with their hands across his mouth. I never saw the verdict in that case, but judging from recent events in Kentucky, I suspect he was set free, and would be today.
8They do have to stop this it will be a slippery slope to outlawing incest later you know. Them how will some of those single branch family trees continue?
9Early marriage was frowned upon in our poor working class home. A high school diploma was valued. It meant a girl could get a job at the soda fountain. Whereas a boy could continue on to college, even if he had to work a 40 hour week on the assembly line to pay for it, and when he got his degree he could maybe find a slot in the engineering department.
Yes, Cousin Milo, I do know what you are thinking even though we are thousands of miles away from each other and likely to keep it that way. Early marriage is usually the way to counter a child born out of wedlock to a teen age mother Yes, you are correct when you claim that back in the 19th century at least half of the teen brides were pregnant when they said I do. Just remember, Milo, that the death rate for both men and women back then was at a much younger age and girls too young to actually bear children often died in childbirth. Milo, you just gotta catch up. there are more and better ways – – – ya know?
10If you really want to educate yourselves about this, please start by reading the
11WashPo article “Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?”,
from Feb. 10,2017.
All states are complicit in this travesty (including California). Please let your
(craven coward) representatives know how you feel about this issue! It’s easy
to pick on Kentucky, but this happens in all states.
It’s exactly the same here in Alaska.
“Both parties must be 18 years of age or older to marry without parental consent. A birth certificate may be required to show proof of age. … Alaska law does not permit those under the age of 16 to marry without a court order.”
12Creeping Sharia.
13My wife delivered babies in Haden, KY for a short time. One of her more colorful experiences was hearing a fistfight between a young teen’s father and husband over who got to claim paternity of the child.
14Growing up in West Virginia we had a saying: “If I divorce my wife, is she still my cousin?”
15They already raised it from 13 in the 70’s, or at least made you get permission from a judge, now you want them to raise it again? Incidentally you can get married at 14 in Texas.
16@Robert McClellan
Having married in Texas at just past 19 and riding the matrimonial roller coaster since, I have opined elsewhere that the legal minimum prolly should be raised. To say 35. But that’s just me.
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