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For contrast the legal marriage age in Saudi Arabia is 18.
Dude just said the quite part out load. If the GOP gets full control over the government, legalized child marriage would be rolled out in days.
Child marriage is already legal in quite a few states with parental permission. And there are a lot of terrible parents.
In China, the phrase 豆蔻年华 refers to a girl of 13-14. Why? Because a famous poet likened the appearance of a child prostitute's developing vagina to a cardamom flower. Apparently that was totally fine, romantic even. I feel bad for the girl.
Anyway here's the flower:
So after searching a bit, "豆蔻年华" appears to translate to "cardamom years".
In case anyone else thought that the post above wasn't terribly clear.
thanks, i was curious about the translation, but didnt plan to search that myself without knowing what it meant!
Yet somehow conservatives think they can point at liberals as the “groomers.”
Because whatever disgusting, vile thoughts run through their heads is what they assume others must be doing.
Some call it projection... but it's projection because these are things they are OBSESSED with. They are so sick and lacking empathy and experience that can't imagine that others genuinely think differently than they do. Every accusation is an admission.
As always, it is all about Projection.
Pieces of shit like this aren't worth the price of a bullet to put them out of our misery.
They are not, but I'll gladly buy all the bullets required to keep children safe from religious idiots and republikkklowns.
Completely agree.
The parts of the world where violent crime is lowest have the highest mean age of motherhood. Women in Australia and the UK, for example, wait until after 30 before having their first child.
The parts of the world where violent crime is the highest have the lowest mean age of motherhood.
Nobody should be encouraging pregnancy before age 30.
I don't think your conclusion is correct and a correlation between the two numbers is by far not enough to assume a causality between the two of them. I would rather assume there are a lot of other factors being involved. Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work, the general wealth of the society, the social securities provided the government, like e.g. health care, unemployment support etc.
Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work
Exactly. It's kinda hard to spend years on education, years building a nest egg, when you haven't spent all that many years alive.
The correlation is through socioeconomic conditions, correct. Older parents have worked longer, saved more, and can provide greater opportunities to their children, which in turn creates a more prosperous society that values education, social security, etc.
That last take comes off as weird, ngl. Just let people do what they want.
I think you're reading more into my statement than what I actually said.
This thread is about a GOP official encouraging child pregnancy:
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’
I don't think we should just let that GOP official do what he wants.
I think your criticism is about reproductive rights: that we should leave individuals to make their own decisions. I agree.
However, when the question comes up as to the best time to start a family, there is an answer: "after 30".
People should just stop trying to interfere with people's private life in general. Get pregnant or don't, how is that a concern to me?
As long as it's two consenting adults, which should be obvious, but sadly apparently isn't.
Get pregnant or don't, how is that a concern to me?
Because every society where the average person starts a family before age 22 is described as "developing" or "impoverished" and every society where the average person starts a family after the age of 28 is described as "industrialized".
I challenge you to find an exception.
You are swapping correlation and causation to some degree. A country does not become industrialized by people starting to have kids at a later age. Rather, people start getting kids when their circumstances allow it: in industrialized countries, you rely less on children to provide for you when old, as there hopefully are social systems in place or you can save up on your own. Downside is, without social systems you also have to provide for yourself at old age, meaning people need to build up more savings before they feel ready for the financial burden a child is for around 20 years.
In developing countries, children often get little support above bare necessities and start contributing to the household income at a much earlier age, even before hitting their teens.
A country does not become industrialized by people starting to have kids at a later age.
There is a theory that supports this:
A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, through interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility.
Declines in fertility have been observed after a country has become industrialized. Not only did fertility decline, but the children people were having were generally 'of higher quality'.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/QE1751
The testable predictions of the theory and its underlying mechanisms have been confirmed in empirical and quantitative research in the past decade, and have inspired intensive exploration of the impact of historical and pre-historical forces on comparative economic development and the disparity in the wealth of nations.
This comes from Wiki, and this particular statement currently has 3 citations if anyone is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_growth_theory
Are all conservatives disgusting, or just most?
All. But as with most things, it's a spectrum.
Some are just a bit yucky.
Still, make sure to wash your hands.
It's an angler fish thing. Sometimes you see the nightmare lurking in the darkness, but usually you get the "some of the nicest people you'll ever meet!" facade.
Probably most. You'd see 1000s of articles every day non-stop, if 20%+ of people were this disgusting.
The fact that you can still be surprised is proof that most of them aren't this disgusting.
Idk man, they have to be some level of disgusting to keep voting these people in.
I'm gonna puke
I see they are using the tactics of religion - get them young.
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