Re: Human standards of adulthood
In my humble opinion, they are bogus and serve no purpose. 18 years for a girl or a boy to get married only causes problems. Dating, teenage pregnancies, date rapes and what not. I have not seen much benefit coming out of setting that age as a hard limit.
**Biologically speaking, a girl as young as 9 or 10 and boy at 12 – 13 are ready to get married. **No other specie but humans set a non-biological limit to copulate. I see it very unnatural.
I am not saying that they should get married at that age, all I am saying is that they are ready and we should accept that if it happens, and do not look down on it as child molestation.
I think the human standards of adulthood came out of economical need. A couple where boy is 12 and girl is 9; how will they support themselves in this competitive world without having secured finances (a job, business, investment).
But a couple where a guy is much older than the girl (ahem, lets say 13 years old girl and 35 years old guy) should be ok cause guy can support the family. On the flip side, 13 years old guy and 35 years old girl can only work if girl is working and ready to support.
Your 2 cents!!
(please do so without throwing derogatory terms like pervert or such at me) I had enough of your politeness and that is why took a long break to cool down.
But isn’t it dangerous for a girl that young to give birth?? How thew heck is the 9/10 yr-old girl going to push a baby out easily if her pelvis isn’t fully developed..