I am shocked!

[meltodd69]

Seen a strange tax return today. Husband and wife filing together. That's not the strange part. The wife is 15! I about crapped! It seemed a little sick to me. I even felt a little sick to my stomach.
I always thought it was 18. I could even see 17, although I don't think your ready at 18 lol.
The lowest age I see is 13 in New Hampshire. I am just shocked!! What parent or court would give thier permission for that? If I had a daughter and she got pregnant, she would be grounded until she was 18. Not getting married. :getyou


http://usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/legal_age_of_consent/index.shtml

[cpbaby]

How old was the husband? My mom and dad got married when my mom was 16 and my dad was 17. 41 years later, they are still together. Really, 16 yr olds getting married isnt unusual at all around here, so 15 would barely cause blip.


My ex-MIL was 13 when she married, but I DO live in Kentucky......lol


Sophie was born when Anthony(my oldest) was 15 1/2. I was just proud she wasnt my GRAND daughter.

[ahippiechic]

I was married and filing taxes at 16, with a son also. But I AM from TN! :D

[Mini]

My bfs mom got married when she was 15 but she didnt have her first child till she was 18. They were married for quite awhile until he passed away. But then again my friend had a baby at 17..married at 17..and another baby at 18. Shes now getting a divorce after just a little over a year of marriage. It all depends on the 2 people together.

However for me there is NO WAY in hell my daughter(if i have one) would get married before 18.

[meltodd69]

He was just 18 almost 19 and they just moved up here. I know that's not that big of an age difference but I didn't know you could marry at that age. I know years ago people married real young. But I thought that changed. That was a little girl today. Not someones wife lol. Still made me sick lol.
WOW!! I guess I really am a Grandma LOL.

[bears984]

pregnant, she would be grounded until she was 18. Not getting married. :getyou


I totally agree with you on this one!

[BeanieLuvR]

My mom's BF got married at 15 to a 22 year old and they were married for 54 years. He passed away last year and she is lost without him. :( I married the week after I turned 18 and he was 18 and we have been married 28 years in October. I think it all depends on the two people getting married.

[evrita]

I was 15 when I met my husband and I wasnt pregnant and BTW we are still together 19 years later. I never got married until I was 19 but did it occur to you the parents thought he was a nice boy treated her nice ect and that if they didnt do it this way and let her learn a lesson if it didnt work they would still have a daughter around rather then a torn relationship or possible runaway child who they may never see again.

[speedygirl]

I was 26 when I married DH and 28 when I had my first child and 32 with the second. We were together 4 years before we got married. Still together for over 30 years and married 26+. My mom was married young at 19 and had me 9 months after the wedding. She and and my dad will be married 54 years next month and they knew each other for 4 weeks before they married so you never know!

[dangerousfem]

LOL.. my mom and dad married that young.. mom was 15.. dad 16.. did it for love.. not pregnancy..lol

Still married 45 yrs later

[stresseater]

I was a bridesmaid for my BF in the 7th grade so that made us like 13 or 14(can't remember which) yes she was pregnant but her mom signed off on it and they got married.

[fleabones3]

My stepson was 17 and he married my DIL when she just turned 16. By this time, they had a daughter. They got pregnant really soon into their relatinship ( HER mother left them ALONE) and he stayed with her the whole time. He is now 18, and she is pregnant again. and their beautiful daughter is 1. They have their own place, he works in construction. They have their problems and need to mature more, but they have lasted longer than some adult marriages.

[DAVESBABYDOLL]

I got married at 16 had my oldest at 18 so it wasn't a shot gun wedding, I am from CA, but my sister lived in TN at the time..does that count? lol

[DonnaWV]

My MIL got married at 16, by the time she was 21 she had 5 kids. She and my FIL have been married 51 years. I agree it depends on the two people, some marry for love, others just think it is love

[Eyore]

I got married when I was 16 hubby was 23. Didn't have our first child until I was 20. We have been married 34 years.

[buttrfli]

I too was married at 16. My ex was 18. I was not preganant.

Lasted 3 years and I was glad it ended. Too long of a story as to why my parents allowed it, but it sure didn't have anything to do with their parenting. I was a HORRIBLE teenager!

[galeane29]

I was married at 17 and he was 21. We had been together since I was 14. We had our first child when I was 18, second at 21. I met John when I was 26 and we had Kevin when I was 28 and we have been married 4 years.

[tunisia]

I had barely put away my dolls @15. LOL

[msmom79]

my mom was one of those child brides-she got pregnant at 15,married and had my oldest sister at 16,then she had sister peg,then me,and when she was getting a divorce,my so called father,had my mom pregnant/and my stepmom pregnant-i have 2 sisters the same age,but not twins-my mother married my step father(wonderful man) @the age of 21-and they were together till he passed. me i was pregnant at 18,married to the (ex) for 20 years-so it can work at times-and then sometimes its just not meant to be.

[whatever]

To me it seems young as well. I know in the 50 and 60 or maybe 70's to they married young. I remember my grandma telling me stories. ANd marriages lasted into the golden years. Nowadays It seems young to me because teens are different than even when I was a teen. They have more stuff (cell phones etc) , except more etc. JMHO

[hotwheelstx]

My grandparents were married at the age of 13 and 15. Married til the day they both passed away. My gf passed away in 1988 and gm in 2001. If I remember when my gm passed they'd been married almost 70 years. As someone else posted it used to be the "norm". I heard my gp's "bicker" from time to time....NEVER one word about divorce, not liking, loving, caring about each other.

I do have an aunt that was married (dad's side) at 14. they were married for almost 20 years until they divorced. He cheated on her, not the other way around. I thought that was a long time, they were young as well. I think he might of been 16 or so.

[meltodd69]

Wow! Thanks for sharing everyone. I'm still a little shocked lol. I just couldn't imagine. I agree though when its right it right. Just at that age I remember thinking every boy was right lol.

[April78945]

I just cringed and got a little sick thinking about what would have happened if I had married the boy I was "in looooooove" with when I was 15. omg yuck

**Not that I luckedout very well with the one I got..but still** lol

[LuvBigRip]

My DD is 16, the young man she is dating will be 17 on the 3rd. They are both Juniors in HS, she is an honor roll student, taking all advanced courses, he is in HS in the am, and takes college courses in the afternoon. Colorado allows you to take college classes in HS, and they pay for them. By the time he graduates from HS next year, he will have his bachelors degree. She will take college course next year too.

All that said, if they came to me and told me they wanted to be married, and were going to do it no matter what, I would grant my permission. They are both good kids, he treats her well, respects her totally and they have both discussed with me and his parents their desire to remain chaste. They have asked us to make sure that we trust them less than they trust themselves in order to help them keep their hormones in check. They didn't want us getting too comfortable with them and asked us to keep them chaperoned as much as possible, they talked about how hard it was to maintain their morals with peer pressure, and just the pressure of being teens in love. We respect them all the more for that.

[erica11311]

shocked!

[ElleGee]

If I were brought up in the Azores I would've been married off at 16... It's really not all that uncommon, even here.. So no shock value for me.