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Missing Ohio teen located in Florida after logging in to World of Warcraft account
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Probably in reference to underaged spouses, basically you can't be charged with anything related to having a kid in your home if said kid is your spouse
That whole statement is still really problematic. Not your problem, but damn.
This might surprise you, but not all that long ago there were plenty of married (and childrened) 16 year olds. Like, more the rule than the exception.
No, I’m well aware, doesn’t make that whole statement any less disturbing.
Still like that in much of rural south America
And other parts of the world, I'm pretty sure 16 is still the full age of consent in Germany for example.
Nobody in Germany or any part of Europe is getting married young. 30 being young.
My classmate in 2008 got married to a 40 gym teacher. She was 15.
You have to already get judicial approval to marry, and it's literally only 17-year-olds being allowed to marry 18- and 19-year-olds. It's not really "having a kid in your home".
https://youtu.be/B0lwiInZG1E?si=hoGP3ZlTPlGE4GgZ
The laws have been restricted a lot in the last few years, so that isn't really relevant anymore. California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington are the only states without a minimum marriage age.
And I was just talking about Florida like in the article. It is one of the strictest states on child marriage in the country.
Are you intentionally using misleading phrasing here? Sure seems like it.
To put it a different way: 40 out of the 50 states allow minors under 18 to be married, with 30 of those 40 allowing children under 17 to be married.
Since those people being married are under 18, they don't have the legal rights of an adult, with guardianship going to their spouse. Can you see how that is a problem?
That's not how that works. Guardianship is a totally separate concept. To be married, someone would be simultaneously emancipated and legally treated as an adult from thenceforth.
I wasn't trying to be misleading. I was just to trying to counter what I thought was very misleading language. When someone says a man has "a kid in his home" as an underaged spouse, the scenario that pops into your mind isn't that it's a 17-year-old emancipated girl who's just married her 18-year-old boyfriend, which is essentially the only legal scenario in Florida.