This is a single post, hardly "Reddit".
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Reddit is now allowing advocacy of Child Marrige because they don't want to be seen as islamophobes
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Yeah, I was gonna say, this is a community moderator not a site admin.
An admin not stepping in does reflect on Reddit. They have shown they won't hesitate to step in when they actually care about the issue.
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The Karachi subreddit lol
"U.S. states - As of July 2025, child marriage is legal in 34 states."
4 states have no minimum age (effectively 0).
2 states have a minimum age of 15.
20 states have a minimum age of 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#Marriage_age
Let’s be honest here, the United States aren’t the standard they claim to be.
You European? They don't have a leg to stand on here. Marriage age is buck wild over there! Europe! What's up with that?!
If not, check your country! Bet money that neither marriage nor age of consent is pegged at 18.
Indeed surprising for me, the trick being that it's not 18 when considering "marriage with parents and judicial approval", which are probably pretty rare but definitely possible in way more countries than i would have bet
Mostly the same in the US, most of the states that are 18 below require parental consent. Still not awesome but it's not like a bunch of teenagers are getting married willy nilly.
Allowing children to be sold off as child brides with parents consent is not an improvement. Especially since they cannot legally get divorced until they are 18
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Anyone who knows anything about the US would never claim such a thing...
Only people claiming this are suburban trash living their sheltered life who need to feel superior after reading something like this.
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One ex of mine got married at 17, another at 18 (Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other). Neither decision was good, and people may think it's only a year, but the difference is drastic. At 18 you're legally an adult, but at 17 you aren't. At 17 you lack rights that your adult spouse has, like to file for divorce and to open bank accounts independently.
The minimum marriage age should be the age of majority and I don't care if your culture dislikes it. If you don't trust someone is old enough to sign a contract, why are you letting someone sign that contract? If they aren't old enough to purchase pornography, why are you letting them enter into a legal commitment with a sexual component? If they can't legally independently demand divorce why are you letting them marry at all?
We had to put a line between child and adult somewhere and 18 seems a pretty good place, but crossing that line grants an immense amount of freedom and independence.
Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other
Thanks, I blew air out of my nose harder than usual.
Glad to be of assistance lol. I used to joke that I don't have a type but a type has me
Too immature to be allowed to drink. Mature enough to raise children.
Yeah, no. Marriage should be 21 and up.
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That Wikipedia article is very poorly written and seems to contradict itself in the same paragraph multiple times. But I'm not surprised that the main locations for child marriages are Appalachia and the Jello-Belt. Backwoods hicks and ultra rural Mormons are the two main demographics i correlate with child marriage.
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Painting the whole of reddit based on the actions of a single non-admin moderator on a religious subreddit of all things feels dishonest as hell, tbh.
Well, an admin not stepping in also speaks volumes. They were more than happy to step in when we complained about API changes.
Yes, reddit admins are famously shit and famously have the most skewed priorities in history, but that still doesn't make this cherry-picked example a good representation of reddit as a whole.
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Imagine if your greatest prophet was a child rapist
Maga can imagine
It's called MAGA.
Dude, Mary was between 12 and 16 when she gave birth to Jesus. And don’t get me started on the story of Lot and his daughters in the Old Testament.
Between OP and the comments, what a stupid fucking post…
Yeah, and? Almost like christianity sucks too, who would have thought
It's almost like all abrahamic religions are bad...
Tainted by the Demiurge.
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Mary was also a virgin though
Sure she was, friend
I mean according to the story told to the followers. It's a lot better imo than in Islam where Aisha was six at the time of the marriage and nine when they had sex...
Then again Mary is a character in both religions' stories
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I know we all hate Reddit, but you don't have to sink as low as this. This is a single post, hardly reddit's stance.
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Hmm... Yeah... So because children were raped 1400 years ago, some loser cuck should be entitled to rape children today?
Sure buddy, age is just a number and the wood chipper is just a place
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Don't be duped by fairy tale stories of any variety that seek to shackle your mind.
So I can still state a corrigendum? Cool.
Corrigendum: That's supremely fucked up, and anyone that advocates for that deserves to be punched in the dick by a thousand prize-fighters.
This seems like a subreddit rule. Has Reddit ever ruled specifically for or against this?
I prefer to follow the “half your age + 7” method in finding out the youngest age of maturity your partner should be.
Maybe, but I'm 30 and honestly don't want to date anyone younger than 25.
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For all the people here saying "Reddit bad because no admin steps in", can you even find this comment? Either the mod team or Reddit seems to have deleted it. So much for admins ignoring it, give them some time to go through their queue.
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