Christian group defends child marriage in KY after blocking bill

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A bill outlawing child marriage in Kentucky had been expected to receive a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, but that vote has been delayed due to last-minute opposition by the conservative Family Foundation of Kentucky, according to the bill’s lead sponsor.

Sen. Julie Raque Adams, R-Louisville, filed Senate Bill 48 on the first day of this year’s session of the Kentucky General Assembly, which would prohibit anyone under the age of 17 from marrying and only allow 17-year-olds to marry with a judge’s approval.

Under the current law in Kentucky, 16 and 17-year-olds can marry with their parents’ permission, and a girl of any age under 16 can marry as long as they are pregnant and marrying the expectant father. Likewise, a boy of any age can marry a woman that he impregnates under the current law.

Adams filed the bill after media reports detailing how Kentucky has the third-highest rate of child marriage in the country — with more than 10,000 children married from 2000 to 2015, according to the Tahirih Justice Center — and the accounts of women like Donna Pollard, who was encouraged by her mother to marry an abusive man who was nearly 31 when she was just 16.

When informed on Wednesday evening that her bill would not receive a committee vote the following morning, Adams expressed her disappointment in a tweet.

“SO disappointed!” wrote Adams. “My SB 48 (outlaw child marriage) won’t be called for a vote. It is disgusting that lobbying organizations would embrace kids marrying adults. We see evidence of parents who are addicted, abusive, neglectful pushing their children into predatory arms. Appalling.”

Asked Thursday morning who was lobbying against her bill, Adams told Insider Louisville that it was the Family Foundation of Kentucky — one of the more prominent groups in Frankfort advocating for socially conservative causes — who argued that it “diminishes parental rights.”

https://insiderlouisville.com/metro/bipartisan-child-marriage-bill-faces-roadblock-from-conservative-family-foundation/

[Lion Heart 15,041]

Disgusting. 

 

"Family values" 

[ryanripley 86,575]

insane, absolutely insane

[sethrb101 4,523]

This is... gross. Why the south continues to be so backwards (as someone from there) is beyond me

[ShockPop 7,747]

What on earth kind of joke country? 

[Miel 15,009]

Just to throw it in there, did y'all know that in most teen pregnancies, the fathers are grown men?

Groups like this refuse to look at intersecting factors that contribute to overall problems, using excuses behind blind worship. Shame. That is not Christian, to me.

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

what else could you expect from inbre........ 

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child marriage is still a thing in the ****ing US? what the actual ****

[JustinTrudeau 2,419]

Most of these child/teen pregnancies are a result of rape in those states.

'Christian values' would prefer marriage over abortion and suing the father. Like a good parent should. Marriage won't solve the problem, and frankly, if your daughter is pregnant at 13, shouldn't you be angry at the father??

 

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Just now, HausOfAmericano said:

child marriage is still a thing in the ****ing US? what the actual ****

The age of marriage in the United States is 18, with the exception of Nebraska (19) and Mississippi (21). Every state allows exceptions to their age of marriage. Most states allow marriage at 16 and 17 with parental consent, and some states also make exceptions subject to judicial approval, or cases of pregnancy. When all exceptions are taken into account, 25 U.S. states[4] have no minimum age requirement.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

"family values" State. smh

[geopang 4,831]

Religion is toxic.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/200000-children-married-us-15-years-child-marriage-child-brides-new-jersey-chris-christie-a7830266.html
 

Spoiler

 

More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed.

Three 10-year-old girls and an 11-year-old boy were among the youngest to wed, under legal loopholes which allow minors to marry in certain circumstances.

Eight-seven per cent of the minors who married across the country between 2000 and 2015 were girls, with the majority either 16 or 17. 

The youngest wedded were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001. The youngest groom was an 11-year-old who married a 27-year-old woman in the same state in 2006.

Most states set the age of sexual consent between 16 and 18 and a person can be charged with statutory rape for having sex with a minor. Yet many children were granted marriage licences, approved by judges, before they could legally consent to sex.

Only 14 per cent of the children who wedded were married to other minors. Most married a partner aged 18 to 29, with 60 per cent aged between 18 or 20.

A 14-year-old girl married a 74-year-old man in Alabama, while a 17-year-old wed a 65-year-old groom in Idaho.

 

ALSO:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-child-marriage-law-repeal-david-bates-new-hampshire-state-girls-boys-13-years-old-girl-a7762776.html TDLR: Republican refuses to repeal child marriage law allowing girls aged 13 to wed

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1 minute ago, JustinTrudeau said:

The age of marriage in the United States is 18, with the exception of Nebraska (19) and Mississippi (21). Every state allows exceptions to their age of marriage. Most states allow marriage at 16 and 17 with parental consent, and some states also make exceptions subject to judicial approval, or cases of pregnancy. When all exceptions are taken into account, 25 U.S. states[4] have no minimum age requirement.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

i am disgusted

[Pacify Him 9,073]

I think they chose the wrong religion for child marriage