?? WV is shitty for a lot of reasons, including this bill (seriously, there are more important things to deal with than being upset someone called it "chestfeeding" instead of "breastfeeding").
But marriage in WV is 18+, 16+ if the person and their parents both sign paperwork to approve, and their spouse is no more than 4 years older than them. I wouldn't call that aggressively permitting child brides, not compared to say California which technically has no hard minimum age of marriage unless they've changed the law in the last few years.
18, 16 with parental consent is pretty typical in the US. Like a majority of states.
There are only ten that have no under 18 marriage under any circumstances, most work basically the same as WV, two actually require you to be older than 18, and California has no hard minimum. Massachusetts is one of the states with a hard limit of 18, but that was only passed in 2022, before that Massachusetts had no hard minimum same as California.
As for being weirdly familiar with these laws, five minutes with Google can get you there.
The whole point is it's dumb to pick on WV for having essentially the same rules as a majority of states as opposed to the 20% who don't consider parental or judicial approval good enough for an exception, the two who don't consider 18 old enough or the one with no minimum.
?? WV is shitty for a lot of reasons, including this bill (seriously, there are more important things to deal with than being upset someone called it "chestfeeding" instead of "breastfeeding").
But marriage in WV is 18+, 16+ if the person and their parents both sign paperwork to approve, and their spouse is no more than 4 years older than them. I wouldn't call that aggressively permitting child brides, not compared to say California which technically has no hard minimum age of marriage unless they've changed the law in the last few years.
WV conservatives seem to be very pro child marriage. Pretty weird if you ask me.
It’s always a red flag when someone has intimate knowledge of child marriage laws and comes out the gate swinging to defend them
True, but I also hail from another, equally crappy state and also get annoyed at the pile ons, but then I remember the reasons why I left lol.
18, 16 with parental consent is pretty typical in the US. Like a majority of states.
There are only ten that have no under 18 marriage under any circumstances, most work basically the same as WV, two actually require you to be older than 18, and California has no hard minimum. Massachusetts is one of the states with a hard limit of 18, but that was only passed in 2022, before that Massachusetts had no hard minimum same as California.
As for being weirdly familiar with these laws, five minutes with Google can get you there.
The whole point is it's dumb to pick on WV for having essentially the same rules as a majority of states as opposed to the 20% who don't consider parental or judicial approval good enough for an exception, the two who don't consider 18 old enough or the one with no minimum.