What Do You Think About Young Marriage (18+)?

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What do you think about early marriage (18+) ?

Miristheiss · Accepted Answer

I think it is the way things SHOULD be.

Parents need to grow their kids up quicker and quit babying them until they are 25.

Let's remember that biology is REAL and that the world existed for thousands of years before the birth control pill.

There was civilization, empires, marriages, families, society BEFORE 1970.

Here is biology. Species reproduce. All living things aspire to reproduce. Humans hit puberty and can start reproducing around 12/13. When a man and woman have sex... BABIES COME!!! Men and women really want to have sex. They get babies when that happens, hence women had to make sure they were with a guy who could care for them and had the protection of a marriage before they let loose and started having sex and babies.

If a woman just started f-ing around she'd get pregnant with no one to help. She had to take sex seriously and most waited for marriage.

When babies came the bigger, stronger, builder, problem solver oriented of the sexes went and worked and built a home and provided. The smaller, weaker of the sexes whose body produced the milk and who was naturally more nurturing cared for the home and babies. People often had 5 or more.

Women were not oppressed... biology dictated that she care for her kids, the women weren't banned from schools, banned from having jobs, held back... it is that there are kids. She can't spend her life getting 2 degrees, building farms, working 60 hour days when there are 6 kids to care for. That is the only reason women didn't spend their lives in schools and in careers (some did of course. Those that didn't have families and kids).

Humans wanted sex. Babies will come, so people didn't stay celibate, they just married early. By 20 they were often married. Now we tell kids to wait until they are 24-28-30 to marry. They don't stay celibate, they just become whores now and sleep around like crazy. Spouses are often their 5th, 10th lover and the pair-bond chemicals are warped. Sexual diseases are out of world, whose does NOT have herpes? Broken families raising criminal kids who become mass shooters, thieves, degenerates. People pass on 15 years of their most fertile years, the heathiest eggs to have kids late in life with tired old eggs, the older eggs.

All the birth rates are plummeting. All the western countries are trying to figure out how to sustain economies and taxes when everyone is aging and using up benefits and there aren't enough young coming up behind. Everyone divorces at the slightest whim. Everyone is so, so entitled and self obsessed.

The new way of marriage, sex, families sucks. In 50-100 years things will be a shit show.

Berethor · Accepted Answer

Common among religious people, it better to marry a woman who is not a Christmas cake.

Kelley1 · Accepted Answer

@Miristheiss Described it correctly. Women should marry from the age of 18 to their early twenties. The modern belief that women should wait until their middle twenties or later is a aberration. For all but the last 100 years of human existence, most young women married in their teens or very early twenties and the human race did fine.

Religious scholars believe the Virgin Marry was 14 when she gave birth, a common age at the time. Shakespeare's Juliet was two weeks shy of age 14 when her parents arranged for her to marry and at the time people didn't think she was too young.

Crimsyjo · Accepted Answer

I didn't marry early but I did get into the relationship that led to marriage at 19. It would be easy for me to dismiss it as bad because my marriage didn't last (12 years). But honestly it's not about marriage at all. Whether a relationship works or lasts is purely down to you as individuals and if you can learn and grow and support eachother through life. Because a lot is going to change in your mental behaviours and physical attributes.

It would be rare that you both can circumnavigate this on the same page for so long... bug it's certainly not impossible.

BCRanger10 · Answer

I'm a big proponent of it. I think one of the worst pieces of advice that young people get (and have gotten) is "wait until you're 30! You need to..."... I'll try to type out this insanely moronic phrase that's loaded with all sorts of asinine juvenilility without convulsing and chucking my phone angrily across the room...*deep breath*..."...figure yourself out!" That's terrible advice because... well, what's the point?

You "figure yourself out" by trial and error. In the context of marriage, the only person you need to be concerned about doing so for is your spouse. Love and marriage aren't a roll of the dice or anything else like that. It's a conscious choice. The longer you put it off, the more hesitation you'll feel about making it.

That and just as a practical matter, it's less time that your kids and grandkids have with you if you choose to wait until you're older.

Get married and get married young.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I think it's stupid, there's no way that you can get to know someone and know that you want to marry them at such a young age. Especially because you're not even fully an adult yet and have so much to learn about yourself and the world.

The younger you get married the more likely you are to get divorced.

LadyKitty · Answer

IT really depends on the couple but I think people should be 24 and older because statistically people who get married too young are more likely to divorce.

electromagnetic · Answer

I don’t regret getting married young. It really taught us that we can either work out our issues. I watched a lot of people around me go in and out of relationships in a matter of days and that was such a difficult thing to keep seeing.

Anonymous · Answer

I think it would work better in the old days because kids were forced to grow up and most likely only one would be that young if at all.
I think nowadays many kids are not nearly as sensible at this age because they are better supportedand need a few years to mature and get things in place.

dreamstar72 · Answer

I married my wife when she was 18, I was 21 and we still have a fantastic marriage and still in love.

Apple1996 · Answer

It's great if both people are ready for it. I got married at 19

Nikki1989 · Answer

You should be at least 25 in my opinion.

TheLovelyIntrovert · Answer

No, the brain isn't fully matured at 18. I see 18 as a child and only an adult by law.

LiamJHayden · Answer

It can work. I know someone who married at 15 and stayed married till her husband passed after 47 years of marriage. I know people who got married in their 30's and divorced within two years.

Anonymous · Answer

I think it could work very well for some people. I think my life would've worked out reasonably well had I married my high school girlfriend. It wouldn't have been the perfect match, but it wouldn't have been a bad one either.

TurboAnon · Answer

Totally fine. I actually think people should get married at younger ages than they do now. However, you have to follow the rules of marriage. Do not cheat.

Kelly6 · Answer

@vicphilips To me early marriage is good, easy to raise kids and enjoy life together more.

BarryLiverstone · Answer

Usually the weddings I’ve attended are scheduled in the early afternoon. So it would be unusual for an early marriage in the morning

art84 · Answer

My mom got married at 22 years old and my dad was 33 years old.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Getting married at 18 is not practical in 99 % of circumstances. That is still a child. Your brain is not done developing until you’re 25.

slatyb · Answer

Not a great idea. Such marriages very often fail.

Tim2nice · Answer

I think it’s dumb and irresponsible

Anonymous · Answer

How old are u when u wanna marry

Zeesgan · Answer

Good to get engaged in early life

gag6474 · Answer

i like it

Walksbehindtherows · Answer

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