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mrduckbear posted...

Kind of ironic

Not what irony is.

mrduckbear posted... top states for child marriages are in RED STATES when QAnon accused liberals of being PEDOPHILES and are in secret child trafficking rings.

It's weird that you conflate marriage with sex offenders, particularly when marriages involving one youth generally is to another youth. These laws are generally there because it was custom for 14 y/os to marry 14 y/os. And the laws typically changed in those other states BECAUSE abuse was so rampant. NY, Massachusetts, etc, were infamous for their child sex trafficking in the past.

However, when you look at the map, the actual AOC across the US is generally 16, with only a few states going higher. Marriage is the only real exception in some states.

CarefreeDude posted...

Red states are typically more rural. Typically those who grow up in rural communities marry early because they don't pursue higher education. Where I used to live many couples were married before leaving high school. Many teen pregnancies happened too. There is also the religious belief you need to be married for six, so some teens marry for that

Yeah, plus the rural/urban divide plays a factor. When it's in an urban setting, there's definitely something flukier going on because that's outside the norms.


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