First of all, many parents of previous generations (including our parents) were married when they were teenagers. Also lots of people who get married and get children at adulthood and yet they're still too immature to be proper parents.
Imagine grouping people that marry in young age with child groomers. Not to mention that most child groomers are adult married people who have married other adults or adults that aren't married.
In scotland you can get married at 16, it still doesn't mean you are mature enough to vote, get drunk, get a tattoo, go on deployment with the Army to a war zone and do a great many other things. The reason that you can't do those things is because you are still growing physically and mentally.
Many adults still have the mentality of a toddler, especially at old age. That's why in ancient Greece they had a saying about old men acting more babies than the actual babies. Also 16 years old is teenager, almost adult. It's a huge difference comparing with 9 years old girls that are forced to get married in certain countries.
There's a lot of "Whataboutery" in the statement you made, lots of Adults murder people, commit serious crimes etc - WTF has that got to do with children getting married? Nothing at all in the same way as the the crap you spouted doesn't either.
It's not about the collective maturity, it's about giving an individual the chance/time to learn who they are, for themselves. If you fail to grow as a person in that regard, it becomes your problem at that point. - Someone who is in a happy, committed relationship, but regrets not giving myself more time as a loner. I was 15 when my joyful cesspool began.
Voting only gives you the delusion of choice, since elections are rigged and all politicians still follow the same agenda even if they pretend being rivals.
Meanwhile same states that ban marriage of minors also want to bring back child labor. Therefore they don't actually give a shit about children.
Stating facts is "Whataboutery"? Lol!
Nice "Whataboutery" argument there. Lol! Also teenager isn't child.
Is it really child labor? Or it's an importunity for teenagers to make some bucks and learn the way jobs work? Believe me, if I could have worked when I was 14 in order to help my family I would have gladly done it, so I don't see it as an absolute bad things to let them work
The Rubic's cube was invented in 1974, that's a fact - it's got bugger all to do with the age of child marriage though, much in the same way as your poor attempt to divert the conversation to things unrelated was.
So making children work is fine but letting them marry is "abuse"? Yeah, no double standards here.
It's not making them work, it's letting them have a choice. In regards to marriage being abuse, do you know there are some deranged people who might marry minors because it's legal? Like it was repeatedly pointed out, teenagers can't really make good decision and when it comes to marriage someone else does it for them. So yeah, it is about protecting children.
Every kid went berry picking in the summer, potato picking in autumn, had a milk or paper round, worked part time in a shop etc when I was young. I suppose that could be classed as child labour - but we got paid for it and did it willingly and voluntarily.
That's the thing, people were paid so they did it voluntarily, however some are accusing it as if it's slavery or something. I had to go potato picking because my family had land but I never got paid since "They were giving me food and clothes and live" there. I wanted to work when I was 14 since that may have helped us in a way that meant not moving to another country (I know the law wouldn't allow full time but still it would be some help for some families). I felt powerless, so giving teenagers the chance and choice to work is a reasonable thing
