US says its ok to bring child brides to America!

[elephant]

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think these laws are backwards?


https://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-u...-politics.html

[jsbhike]

I guess all the people id'd as kooks and crazies putting out claims that a movement was underway to normalize pedophilia for the last couple of decades deserve some apologies.

[Waylander]

It's sickening savages like this are even allowed a passport to this country, much less bring a child bride.

[Firefly]

I don't know how I feel about this.

If it works it works. If it don't it really don't. Its only been in the last 70 years that people get squicked by May December marriages.

Even God knocked up the virgin Mary when she was 14.

I really don't know.

I wouldn't do it. 18 is the youngest I'd go on paper. Even 25 is too young for me now.

I don't like having too much power in a relationship.

[elephant]

I don't like having too much power in a relationship.

me either! too much weight on my shoulders!

[SteyrAUG]

Paging Chris Hansen.

Seems like a great way to arrest them for statutory rape and whatever else, revoke their status and send them back to whatever goat farking country they originally came from.

[HMM]

My wife is listening to a pod cast about an adult Australian man with kids that moved in his 16 year old gf after his wife "disappeared." We got to talking about the age of consent over there and that blew me away. It's 16, 17 in some places. There's no way at 40 I'd want a 16 yr old, heck I wouldn't want a 25 yr old...too much drama.

[Tx_Aggie]

I don't know how I feel about this.

If it works it works. If it don't it really don't. Its only been in the last 70 years that people get squicked by May December marriages.

Even God knocked up the virgin Mary when she was 14.

I really don't know.

I wouldn't do it. 18 is the youngest I'd go on paper. Even 25 is too young for me now.

I don't like having too much power in a relationship.

Bro... These days we know without a doubt that children aren't capable of making decisions at an adult level (heck, our brains aren't really completely developed until out mid-20's).

I dig the live-and-let-live to a point, but using it to excuse pedophilia and taking advantage of minors, who shouldn't be asked to make decisions about something like marriage in the first, place is wrong.

The past is the past, and I'm not one to judge the past by today's standards. When most people died in their 30's and making it to 50 was rare it made sense to marry and start a family early.

That said, marrying children is wrong by today's standards, and what we now know about human development. Period. Many would say it is down right evil. I don't care if it's a Muslim doing it for religious reasons, or some 60 year old hippie pretending that the 13 year old he "loves" is capable of returning his love because "love knows no age limits" when he's really just a closet Hebephile. Neither should be allowed to take advantage of a child.

For example, from the article:

"My sunshine was snatched from my life," said Naila Amin, a dual citizen born in Pakistan who grew up in New York City.

She was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and later applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the U.S. at the behest of her family. She was forced for a time to live in Pakistan with him, where, she said, she was sexually assaulted and beaten. She came back to the U.S., and he was to follow.

I agree with you that, were I not married, I'd have no real interest in dating anyone under 25.

[Firefly]

Don't get me wrong...I am NOT advocating but I did know of a couple where the man was 70s and the woman was 50s and they had adult children so somebody was a bit young on that one and they did okay.

But buying some kid is pretty much grey level human trafficking. Which is incredibly wrong.

Which is why as I say....If it works it works. If it don't it REALLY don't.

I get the appeal of some younger girls wanting an older man and vice versa but even if intentions are good and noble...

The man is going to die way sooner.
But if there is something real there then who am I to keep it apart if all responsible parties are consenting and accountable.

I mean...Alvin York married a chick half his age. I doubt anyone would call him a pedo.

This is too touchy for me but I wouldn't do it. As I said, too much power disparity would make me feel guilty.

[MegademiC]

This quote from the article suggest they were child brides, but not allowed to come here until they are of age at time of immigration. Or am I missing something? Emphasis mine:

And in weighing petitions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services goes by whether the marriage is legal in the spouse or fiancee's home country and then whether the marriage would be legal in the state where the petitioner lives.