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'You got to marry these girls when they are 15 or 16': Phil Robertson wades into new controversy
Daily Mail ^ | 12/31/2013

Posted on 12/31/2013 8:28:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Unpleasant video footage of reinstated Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has emerged in which he appears to advise young men to marry underage girls because they are easier to control.

In the 2009 Sportsmen's Ministry talk, Robertson, 67, who began dating his wife when she was 14-years-old, advises his audience, 'You got to marry these girls when they are 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks' - which is a literal reference to removing dead bird's feathers.

Warming to his stereotypical redneck theme, Robertson, who was suspended from the A&E hit for nine days earlier this month for homophobic comments, tells the gathered crowd that in addition to being young, the girls have to know how to cook and carry a Bible - 'That'll save you a lot of trouble down the road.'

While the speech given in Georgia is recounted in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner, in light of Robertson's strong views on traditional family values - protected by the First Amendment - they seem slightly inappropriate.

His advice for a happy marriage, which he claims is a kind of 'river rat counseling', is that all men 'Make sure that she can cook a meal. You need to eat some meals that she cooks, check that out.'

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To: GladesGuru

So thats another reason why boys and girls should wait, get their school/careers in order.

I’m pleased that the UK and US census stats show that from the late 1800’s, the average age of women marrying was early twenties. Not 16 or 17 or even 18.


101 posted on 12/31/2013 11:05:52 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Norm Lenhart

There were plenty of STD’s running around. Perhaps easier to cure with penicillin, but they were out there right along with premarital sex.


102 posted on 12/31/2013 11:08:36 PM PST by HollyB
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To: ansel12

Ansel, after our last go around on this I went through my uncles family records, talked to a number of older aquaintences (on the opposite side of the country I grew up in) and did a bunch of reading. Then as now, you are just wrong. Your census figures do not take into account the fact that the census was not remotely accurate outside a major city until the 20th century for one thing.

And this very thread has people from across America stating specifically that it was common in their own families. Now either FR is a haven for the children of pedophiles or you are just pushing a mistaken agenda. I’ll leave it up to you as to explaining why your facts fly in the face of your fellow Freepers actual life experiences.


103 posted on 12/31/2013 11:10:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: HollyB

Like Aids for instance...oh wait.

That aside, Sure there were STDs. Always have been. And at FAR less instance than today.

If you want to make the arguement that a young married man in the past is less responsible than Pajamaboy today, be my guest. And that we are better off with Kidults than 15 year old “MEN” of the past, do that too. It’s not worth the time arguing reality to someone offended by it.


104 posted on 12/31/2013 11:14:56 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

There are Many girls and boys who are educating themselves and getting financially sound first. Most of the kids friends I know are doing that and all my nieces and nephews are very successful in their careers.


105 posted on 12/31/2013 11:19:33 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
And many of our grandparents and prior did just that. We live in a nation built by people who married young.

This is why the Communists hate these traditions so much.

Not really. During much of the twentieth century, many women waited until they had economic security before marrying and having children. There are always some who can't wait and marry young. If they have committed husbands, they are lucky, otherwise they are destined for poverty.

On the other hand, socialists have been pushing sex on children ever since Plato. Plato is an idealist who set the ground rules for communists.

106 posted on 12/31/2013 11:20:24 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I accounted for millennial evolutionary factors. The pubescent divide has certainly changed since a thousand ago. And it’s not antiquated by virtue of inhabiting the South.

As far as I’m concerned, 17 is old enough to smoke, drink, drive, marry, and die for the Country. A person 15 years of age, not so much. And I say this with complete respect to the age groups in question.


107 posted on 12/31/2013 11:21:27 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“Like Aids for instance...oh wait.”

I realize you were being snide, however I specifically stated the STD’s were curable by PCN.
I have a funny feeling there were some shots being administered during the war years.


108 posted on 12/31/2013 11:22:27 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Stingray
Is this guy’s 15 minutes of fame over yet? It’s one thing to quote the Bible about sodomy. It’s quite another to give personal advice about “marryin’ ‘em young’uns!” Sorry. Can’t get on board for this one. What a moron.

He was talking to his 16 or so year old grandson in an episode. I watched that episode and have just about all episodes. Both Phil and his wife Kay are highly active in their grandkids life giving them lots of positive moral direction and that too is shown in the show. Same boy comes to Phil's house to take his girl friend out fishing in the boat. Guess who tags along uninvited? Phil.

The grandmother Kay often talks to the girl grandchildren and sometimes both together. BTW grandkids address both Phil and their own dad as Sir when told to do something.

But as for marrying at 16? My dad had three sisters and three half sisters. His three sisters were all married by age 16 to men about 7-9 years senior their age. All three married returning WW2 Vets. On my moms side most of my grandmothers sisters married young as well mainly WW1 vets. IIRC my sister married at 17 and her husband was about 7 years older just out of college. I married just shy of 23 getting out of the service to my 19 year old girlfriend. When she passed and I remarried it was to a woman 7 years my senior at age 28 & 35 receptively. In high school about a dozen girls were married by their Junior year. That was in the early 1970's. No one freaked.

The media is making a big deal over what isn't a big deal. The grandparents are telling the kids pick a mate that shares or accepts your interest. For example the grandmother has Phil or her sons hunt squirrels because she likes squirrel brains. Of and when one of the granddaughters started dating her dad "Willie" takes her boy friend hunting.

So is anyone in that family pushing their kids into marriage at 16? No.

Next on the Liberals hit list will likely be the wisdom tooth extraction episode when again same grandson is put on laugh gas.

109 posted on 12/31/2013 11:26:13 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Gene Eric

17 works for me as well. But it’s still arbitrary considering the biological purpose of puberty.

We think 15 is too young for many things. But biology doesnt care what you or I think. And again, nor does history. Alexander the Great led armies and conqured nations before 17.

Sure, there is a huge ick factor when men and women of 2014 consider this issue. I get that. I share that. But ick factor is just that. It’s what we were taught. History doesn’t care what we were taught. Nor do all the 15 yos married throughout it.


110 posted on 12/31/2013 11:27:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: cva66snipe

Unpossible! I read right here on this very page that this behavior is a myth! ;)


111 posted on 12/31/2013 11:30:45 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

A question here. How did Alex the great’s army live when not in battle?

Well. We have better and far more options today


112 posted on 12/31/2013 11:33:08 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Not really the point is it?


113 posted on 12/31/2013 11:33:50 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
LOL, I don't know what grudge you are carrying, or why you would want to launch into a personal attack, but the facts are what they are.

Your saying they aren't, doesn't change them.

When you look at the data and the history, you learn that you are only seeing the times you lived in, and regurgitating a popular myth.

114 posted on 12/31/2013 11:37:28 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: HollyB
"A question here. How did Alex the great’s army live when not in battle?"

Yup.

That there's right on topic.

Yessiree!
115 posted on 12/31/2013 11:41:50 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

“During much of the twentieth century, many women waited until they had economic security before marrying and having children.”

I seem to remember reading about an increase in latchkey kids and a number of previously rare occurrences like childbirth at 50 that accompanied those economically secure and waited careers....


116 posted on 12/31/2013 11:41:55 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

What you read is that your bizarre claim of what was normal, are myth.

My grandmother married at 15, and my wife was 17, but it doesn’t change the facts of what was normal in the past.

Sixteen year olds still marry, but the normal age for marriage, is much higher.


117 posted on 12/31/2013 11:42:00 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Norm Lenhart; LoneRangerMassachusetts

Actually, having a man have to reach a level of economic self sufficiency was normal for thousands of years.


118 posted on 12/31/2013 11:43:58 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: ansel12

Ansel, are you calling all these Freepers liars? I dont know where you get personal attack from. I pointed out you pushing a clearly false assumption. It’s false as right here on this very thread, a microcosm of America at large, there are far more people saying they have young marriges in their family trees than denying it.

Now either explain why that is or do not be shocked when you are called on it.


119 posted on 12/31/2013 11:44:50 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Stingray

My mom married my dad when she was 15. He was 21 and headed to Germany (WWII)
She was the youngest of 11, had been working since age 13. She looked at least 20 in the pics I’ve seen.
They celebrated their 66th anniversary a few months before dad went home to heaven.
Age is a number. Maturity is not monolithic.


120 posted on 12/31/2013 11:45:39 PM PST by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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