Everytime you throw in the red herring of an age difference antithetical to the story presented here we think you are more and more illiterate.
The people celebrating two young people marrying are not by default okay with it were it a young person with an old person.
These two are four years apart.
“These two are four years apart.”
There’s a huge maturity difference in people at 16 & 20 vs. 20 & 24, or 24 & 28. Most marriages at 16-20 end in divorce or poverty FOR THE WOMAN!
“To better understand the effect of women’s early decisions on future life outcomes, this article examines variation over time and across states in the laws that regulate early marriage, school attendance, and child labor. Based on using these laws as instruments for early marriage and high school completion, the results indicate strong negative effects on poverty status that are not due to self selection. The baseline IV estimates imply that women who marry young are 31 percentage points more likely to live in poverty when they are older. Similarly, women who drop out of school are 11 percentage points more likely to be in families below the poverty line.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000061/
But when arguing in favor of marrying them young to control (i.e. USE THEM), remember to keep them barefoot and pregnant, too!
Some of you people really do sicken me!