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RE: What in the bloody hell are MAPs?
It does go back throughout history. Age of consent is only a recent thing and if you look back at most countries it was normal to have girls married off at 13 or 14. Still is in some communities. It's horrible to think how it used to be when there were no protections for the children who should never have been put in that kind of position.
People can be wired differently and it's hard to understand those who have this kind of mindset but at least if the subject is talked about it can be recognized and prevented. It's better to have the discussion rather than just saying how wrong it is keeping them hidden where anything can happen.
Niallon11? I mean no disrespect. However, I don't think the topic of teenage marriage really factors into the topic of discussion set forth in meno's article above. I do believe that it is wrong if a young girl is forced into an unwanted marriage, but I also believe that it is wrong for anyone of any age to be forced into an unwanted marriage. Anyhow, my point is that teenage girls have been to known to get married either to boys their own age or to someone slightly or perhaps noticeably older than them. Country singer Loretta Lynn got married at 13 years old to a 21-year-old man named Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, and they lived happily ever after. That is something that is not to be equated to some lunatic grabbing a toddler off of a playground and committing unspeakable acts against him or her afterwards. Dangerous pedophiles are trying to fool the world into believing that the two scenarios are identical by pushing the word "M.A.P." down everyone's throat. It's almost like Nazis getting into a room full of decent Austrians back in 1941 and screaming, "We all speak German, so we're all alike!" It's a deception, and people should not fall for it.