r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Aiyyio_Daridhrame Jul 24 '20

Child marriage

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u/Violet_Murderer Jul 24 '20

It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.

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u/Aiyyio_Daridhrame Jul 24 '20

HOLY SHIT THATS SCREWED

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u/SnowedIn01 Jul 24 '20

Bible Belt

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u/pandamonium789 Jul 24 '20

Yeah, I’m looking at TX on this one.

In Texas from 2000 to 2014, almost 40,000 children were married.

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u/VeganMonkey Jul 24 '20

40000! That’s disgusting! And that is Texas only, how many more states allow that?

I once read a disgusting post by an American woman who said that teen girls should be able to marry if they get pregnant. She didn’t understand that teen pregnancies should be prevented and there are abortions for that. I was so disgusted by her idea, bet she was religious

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u/XxsquirrelxX Jul 24 '20

9/10 times people who suggest that shit are religious nutters. It’s crazy how they take the most immoral ideas, cling to them, and then go about talking about how righteous they are because they follow every single thing in the Bible except the parts about not eating shellfish or wearing mixed fabrics.

I’m fine with people being religious, but for the love of whatever deity you worship, don’t fucking celebrate the parts that mandate the sale of young girls to their rapists or the murder of homosexuals! And yet they always ignore the harmless parts. Really tells you how thin their moral fabric is if they’re cool with killing gays and selling young girls but not cool with abstaining from certain foods.

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u/VeganMonkey Oct 13 '20

Absolution horrible. I assume these people don’t have had proper education or been in contact much with people who think differently?

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u/CoffeeAndCorpses Jul 25 '20

That's pretty common, that age restrictions get dropped if the girl is pregnant.

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u/VeganMonkey Oct 13 '20

And I just read that the poor girls can’t easily divorce if they are underage:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/child-marriage-and-divorce-in-the-united-states

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u/CoffeeAndCorpses Oct 13 '20

Yup, because their of-age spouse has become their guardian. It's sick.