Subj : Re: BBS community improve
To   : Dumas Walker
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 28 2024 05:54 pm

  Re: Re: BBS community improve
  By: Dumas Walker to RAVNE on Tue May 28 2024 10:22 am

 > Who tried to make child marriage legal recently?  I know historically people
 > did get married off at very young ages, but I have not seen any push to have
 > that happen here in the US lately.

Missouri tried to ban child marriage but ran into resistance from house republicans.

The committee's chair, Rep. Jim Murphy, a St. Louis-area Republican, said in an interview that there aren't enough votes within the committee to get it to the House floor. 

Seven of the 14 committee members oppose the legislation and disagree with raising the state's marriage age, he said. "It's on the.going 16 to 18,"

Murphy, who supports the bill, said of the opposition. "There's just enough members in that committee that don't think that's a good idea." One of those lawmakers is Rep. Dean Van Schoiack, a Savannah Republican and vice chair of the committee. Van Schoiack said in an interview that he knows people who got married as minors, including a woman at roughly age 17. The couple, he said, is "still madly in love with each other." 

"Why is the government getting involved in people's lives like this?" Van Schoiak said. "What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or 17 years old, their parents say, you know, `you guys love each other, go ahead and get married, you have my permission.' Why would we stop that?" 
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288424893.html#story link=cpy
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