[TexasFreeper2009]

Seriously, I think this was handled best when families decided when their children were ready. And I also think it was best when the families decided who they should marry. With the divorce rate skyrocketing, it has become abundantly clear that most people are completely incapable of selecting a suitable partner on their own. And waiting till your 25+ just leads to out of wedlock sex which helps destroy their later relationships in various ways. I don't understand for the life of me why we think we know better than nature, and why our current way of handling this hasn't been deemed the utter failure that it is.

Some boys and many girls are not only capable of being married at puberty, but really need to go ahead and start their lives.

[sthguard]

“Some boys and many girls are not only capable of being married at puberty, but really need to go ahead and start their lives.”

Start their lives how, exactly? Even if they had the emotional and mental maturity to handle a marriage at age 14, they’d have no marketable education and would be effectively unemployable. And if they start a family right away, their expenses would increase exponentially.

Marrying before age 20 might have been practical before making a living wage required at least a high school education, but it’s not now. And I sure as heck wouldn’t want to marry any of the girls I had crushes on when I was 20, let alone 14!