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TexasTowelie

(116,855 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 04:06 AM Feb 2017

N.Y. lawmakers push to raise the age for marriage to 17

Albany -- Children in New York state can be married as young as 14, and a troubling number — almost all them girls — are married off at that young age by their families, according to advocates backing a bill that would raise the state's minimum marriage age to 17.

If they weren't married, the spouses of these child brides would be in violation of statutory rape laws, said Westchester Democratic Assemblywoman Amy Paulin is sponsoring the bill along with Staten Island Republican Sen. Andrew Lanza.

Human rights organizations describe the practice as a violation when it goes on in other countries.

The trouble is, "It happens right here in our very own backyard," said Paulin, who was joined Monday by some women who had been or nearly were married off by their families as teenagers.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/N-Y-lawmakers-push-to-raise-the-age-for-marriage-10932218.php

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N.Y. lawmakers push to raise the age for marriage to 17 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Good grief! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2017 #1
That is way too young to be married. TexasTowelie Feb 2017 #3
I'm sure no one else I know is aware that that law is on the books! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2017 #4
WOW! shit I thought that was like a Kentucky thang njhoneybadger Feb 2017 #2

Rhiannon12866

(222,433 posts)
4. I'm sure no one else I know is aware that that law is on the books!
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 04:26 AM
Feb 2017

And I agree with you that around 30 makes sense. IMO, before that age people go through way too many changes to make such a major life decision...

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)
2. WOW! shit I thought that was like a Kentucky thang
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 04:14 AM
Feb 2017

Well I guess in Kentucky first cousins can be gettin hitched when they're 14.

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