A Woman, A Woman - Oh What Can She Be? (page 5)

N.drew

LOL. OK, we do not know if the women in question was happy to marry. We do not know if she is still happy. Maybe she has been happy for 50 years. We do not know. If my daughters married at 15 (going on 16) and if they were happier than my 15-40 years old miserable life then ya, go ahead. But one never knows, does one? Maybe to prove meangirl's point, the lady in question should have said to hell with you you damn pervert. Speaking of questions, did no one notice the 6 million JWs are standing on a question?

meangirl

Here's more:

Encouraging reporting. Tennessee passed a bill encouraging,
but not requiring, health care providers to report statutory
rape, defined in Tennessee as sexual assault on minors 13
to 15 years old. Reporting is already mandated for children
under 13. Florida passed legislation making sex with children
under 16 child abuse if the offender is 21 or older.

Below is proposed legislation considered by 13 other State
legislatures that was not enacted during their most recently
completed session.

Expanded scope of laws/raising age of protected minor.
Indiana and Washington considered providing criminal
penalties for men 21 years old and older who have sex with
a minor who is either 16 or 17 years of age, respectively.
Washington would also have required the defendant to be in
a position of authority. Both proposals included restitution.
Hawaii, Mississippi, and Utah considered raising the age of
the minor protected under statutory rape laws. Utah would

have raised the age to 18; Mississippi would have raised itfrom 14 to 16 years of age. Hawaii considered several proposals
on raising the age, which is now the lowest in the
country at 14 years.

Prosecution grants, penalties for parents’ failure to seek
prosecution. New York and Connecticut considered authorizing
grant programs for statutory rape prosecution.
Connecticut considered imposing criminal penalties against
parents who fail to seek prosecution of a man engaged in a
sexual relationship with their daughter if she was under 16
and knew the offender.

Penalties associated with pregnancy. Illinois and Oregon
considered increasing the penalties for statutory rape if a
pregnancy results.

Mandatory minimum sentence. Massachusetts considered a
1-year mandatory minimum sentence if the defendant is 18
years old or if there is a 5-year age difference between the
minor and the offender.

N.drew

Can you tell the difference between an evil SOB and a gentleman? No? Maybe that's what's wrong with the world?

Those laws are to discourage crime, not love. Just because one lady and gent got married young, doesn't mean it's right for everyone. Maybe LoneWolf should have included a disclaimer in his story?

tec

The laws probably keep changing because people don't know what should be right.

In either case, how can a man be condemned for something that wasn't even socially unacceptable at the time he did it, much less illegal? I mean, age of consent in Canada today is 14. (unless that changed in the last three years) Not saying I like that, but so what?

Besides all of that - this is a woman full grown now. If she isn't happy or had some resentment, then she is fully capable of speaking her mind, leaving or whatever. Give the woman - her intelligence and her strength - some credit.

Thank you for sharing the story, and also Talesin for the videos. Helps to reinforce and bring to light 'possibilities' outside what we usually see as the norm.

Peace,

Tammy

AGuest

I concur with both N.Drew and tec (the greatest of love and peace to you, both!), dear meangirl (peace to you!). It may (or may not) have something to do with our respective ages/lives/backgrounds... /and/or that of our parents/grandparents. You might want to keep in mind, then, that there's probably a whole lot of folks here on this board who either married very young... or their parents/grandparents did... perhaps even as young as the wife here... and with even greater age differences. Particularly those with JW, slave, sharecropping, immigrant, and other like ancestors.

Your comments, then... or, rather, the "spirit" behind them... only serve to ridicule their very existence and/or such marriages. Which you really have no cause... or right... to do. You have a right to your opinion, yes, but really, does that right extend over into insulting this woman... which you are doing, by insulting her husband and her marriage (or others whose life paths were similar)? I am sure that if she posted a response you would get quite an earful, perhaps even be left speechless.

So, you MIGHT want to reconsider your unfounded, unnecessary, open-mouthed chagrin... and the accompanying words. Because they are misplaced in this thread.

Again, peace to (and perhaps a little less judging from)... you!

A slave of Christ,

SA

meangirl

Well what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. You can romanticize it all you want and justify all you want. My own mother would've been 15 fifty years ago and it was NOT common to be married at 15. Yes people married younger, my mother married at age 18 but 15 no. She grew up in the south and poor. Still not the norm. I KNOW I am right and will stand up for what is right. The law obviously agrees with me. Common sense agrees with me.....

A Woman, A Woman - Oh What Can She Be?

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