Child marriage ban bill defeated in West Virginia House

[SackMan518]

Not sure why this is a topic when Wikipedia can show you what the rules are state by state.

 

Underage marriage
When at least one of the marriage partners is under the general marriage age, the marriage is considered underage and may require parental consent and/or judicial authorization. Also, adolescents can marry in "exceptional circumstances”.

In the 50 states
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island,[19] New York, and New Jersey do not allow underage marriage. The other states allow an underage person to marry in the following circumstances:

If one or more of the following apply:

• consent of the parents or legal guardians of the minor
• consent of a court clerk or judge
• if the minor is emancipated.

Or in exceptional circumstances if one or more of the following circumstances apply:

• consent of a superior court judge, rather than a local judge, is required
• if one of the parties is pregnant
• if the minor has given birth to a child

In 6 states, a person who is 21 years old cannot marry a person under 18 years old: Missouri, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada. In one state, Florida, a person who is 20 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. In 3 states – Georgia, Tennessee and Ohio – a person who is 22 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. Indiana is nearly the same, although a person who is 21 can marry a person who is 17 years old.

Minimum age in 50 states:

• 2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.
• 24 states have a minimum age of 16.[20]
• 10 states have a minimum age of 17.
• 7 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Washington.
• 7 states have a minimum age of 18, which is the same as their general age: Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

From 2017[21][22] to 2022,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] several states changed their law to set a minimum age, or to raise their minimum age.

In Massachusetts, the minimum marriage age is 18. Prior to July 29, 2022, adolescents could be married with judicial consent.[31] Unlike many other states,[32] in Massachusetts an adolescent's marriage did not automatically emancipate the minor, or increase his or her legal rights beyond allowing the minor to consent to certain medical treatments.[3]

 

[ICRockets2]

1 minute ago, SackMan518 said:

Not sure why this is a topic when Wikipedia can show you what the rules are state by state.

 

Underage marriage
When at least one of the marriage partners is under the general marriage age, the marriage is considered underage and may require parental consent and/or judicial authorization. Also, adolescents can marry in "exceptional circumstances”.

In the 50 states
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island,[19] New York, and New Jersey do not allow underage marriage. The other states allow an underage person to marry in the following circumstances:

If one or more of the following apply:

• consent of the parents or legal guardians of the minor
• consent of a court clerk or judge
• if the minor is emancipated.

Or in exceptional circumstances if one or more of the following circumstances apply:

• consent of a superior court judge, rather than a local judge, is required
• if one of the parties is pregnant
• if the minor has given birth to a child

In 6 states, a person who is 21 years old cannot marry a person under 18 years old: Missouri, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada. In one state, Florida, a person who is 20 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. In 3 states – Georgia, Tennessee and Ohio – a person who is 22 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. Indiana is nearly the same, although a person who is 21 can marry a person who is 17 years old.

Minimum age in 50 states:

• 2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.
• 24 states have a minimum age of 16.[20]
• 10 states have a minimum age of 17.
• 7 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Washington.
• 7 states have a minimum age of 18, which is the same as their general age: Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

From 2017[21][22] to 2022,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] several states changed their law to set a minimum age, or to raise their minimum age.

In Massachusetts, the minimum marriage age is 18. Prior to July 29, 2022, adolescents could be married with judicial consent.[31] Unlike many other states,[32] in Massachusetts an adolescent's marriage did not automatically emancipate the minor, or increase his or her legal rights beyond allowing the minor to consent to certain medical treatments.[3]

 

"Why are we talking about this"

Just say you like child marriage my guy

[SackMan518]

1 minute ago, ICRockets2 said:

"Why are we talking about this"

Just say you like child marriage my guy

Actually I don't and didn't even get married myself until age 40.

[ICRockets2]

3 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

Actually I don't 

You just like giving cover to the people who refuse to ban it, that's sooooooooooo much better

[RichJ]

1 hour ago, f8ta1ity54 said:

This literally happens in the US every year. 

Lol. You couldn't come up.a link to a 50 year old trans marrying a 15 yr old. 

[SackMan518]

13 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

You just like giving cover to the people who refuse to ban it, that's sooooooooooo much better

Did you not see the list? They aren't even on the listed for the youngest allowed state. You're a moron.

[ICRockets2]

8 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

Did you not see the list? They aren't even on the listed for the youngest allowed state. You're a moron.

Yes they are.  They're in the group with no age limit.  Christ, do you think "no age limit" is higher than 15 just because it wasn't the one listed first?

You're so fucking retarded, how have you not mistaken a bullet for a breath mint yet

[ICRockets2]

11 minutes ago, RichJ said:

Lol. You couldn't come up.a link to a 50 year old trans marrying a 15 yr old. 

Video about 51 year old marrying a 16 year old.

[SackMan518]

6 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

Yes they are.  They're in the group with no age limit. 

From the article:

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

That's not a "no age limit." Do you really think a judge will sign a waiver to let a 5 year old girl marry a 50 year old man? This isn't one of your grooming parties champ.

[ICRockets2]

1 minute ago, SackMan518 said:

From the article:

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

That's not a "no age limit." Do you really think a judge will sign a waiver to let a 5 year old girl marry a 50 year old man? This isn't one of your grooming parties champ.

All they need to do to be in the lowest category is sign off on a 14 year old getting married.  That's as low as they need to go to be lower than the states with an age limit of 15.  

[SackMan518]

3 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

All they need to do to be in the lowest category is sign off on a 14 year old getting married.  That's as low as they need to go to be lower than the states with an age limit of 15.  

West Virginia isn't even the biggest offender of this. The stats show 63 of 10,000 marriages performed as being "underage" (which I'm not entirely at what age they cut off at but I'm guessing 18). The biggest offenders are Idaho and Kentucky. New York had 10 of every 10,000 marriages listed as underage but that excluded NYC so I'd be curious to see what they are when that's included. Judging by this data I don't see what the big deal is in West Virginia. I mean it's not like they're taking kids to drag shows and stripping classes for children like some other people.

[RichJ]

1 hour ago, SackMan518 said:

Not sure why this is a topic when Wikipedia can show you what the rules are state by state

They wanted to take a subject about what republicans did ,spin it around and make it about trans so they can feel offended. 

[RichJ]

38 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

Video about 51 year old marrying a 16 year old.

So there was parental consent yet a rare occurrence. 

 

Now what about a 50 yr. Old trans marrying a 16 yr. old. Got one?

[SackMan518]

14 minutes ago, RichJ said:

They wanted to take a subject about what republicans did ,spin it around and make it about trans so they can feel offended. 

Yeah they just want to find some way that the other side could be as degenerate as them so they feel better about themselves but they failed again at their little "Gotcha!" games.

[Very Wide Right]

6 hours ago, f8ta1ity54 said:

I guess West Virginia is okay with trans people getting married to children. You would think if they were so afraid of Trans people grooming their kids they would make sure the law doesn't allow Trans people to marry children. hmmmm...

Child marriage ban bill defeated in West Virginia House - ABC News (go.com)

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.

The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates.

The vote came shortly after the bill's main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children.

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

“For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote.

In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day.

Some of the bill's opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia.

Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

The bill would have established that 18 is the age of consent and removed the ability of a minor to obtain consent through their parents, legal guardians, or by court petition. Existing legal marriages, including those done in other states, would have been unaffected.

According to the nonprofit group Unchained At Last, which seeks to end forced and child marriage, seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018. Supporters of such legislation say it reduces domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and improves the lives of teens.

Although recent figures are unavailable, according to the Pew Research Center, West Virginia had the highest rate of child marriages among the states in 2014, when the state's five-year average was 7.1 marriages for every 1,000 children ages 15 to 17.

 

Nobody that I know of fears trans people. They are just suggesting that they are suffering from mental illness and want them to get treatment instead of being told that they are normal. Then when the suicides follow it's Conservatives fault.

[HipKat]

You know what a teenage girl in West Virginia says after sex??
"Get up daddy! You're crushing my cigarettes!"

What's the definition of a virgin in West Virginia?
A 10 year old that can out run her big brothers

[ICRockets2]

2 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

West Virginia isn't even the biggest offender of this. The stats show 63 of 10,000 marriages performed as being "underage" (which I'm not entirely at what age they cut off at but I'm guessing 18). The biggest offenders are Idaho and Kentucky. New York had 10 of every 10,000 marriages listed as underage but that excluded NYC so I'd be curious to see what they are when that's included. Judging by this data I don't see what the big deal is in West Virginia. I mean it's not like they're taking kids to drag shows and stripping classes for children like some other people.

"What's the big deal?  They're not taking kids to see a drag queen reading stories, they're just letting older men fuck 'em."