In USA, in the last 15 years, 200,000 children have married, some as young as ten.
YouTube: "65 yr old man marries 12 year old girl(Child Marriage Social Experiment.)
"50 Year Old Woman Marries 12 year old boy."
In the USA there has been a history of people having children at a young age.
My Grandmother got married at 14 years old, as a girl in the country in Oregon, and my Brother had a child when he was 14 with a girl who was 15 who was Roy Rogers and Dale Evan's Granddaughter. And Dale Evans had her son Tom when she was 14.
And Latin women have their Quinceanera at 15 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1eraAnd many young ladies drop out of high school as they get pregnant.
With people who are educated, and with working professionals, the women wait until after college to get pregnant, but with the poorer people and with those less educated then a lot of women get pregnant in their teens.
And some poor and less educated teens get pregnant so that they can get housing and Welfare.
And one thing too, many men in the USA cannot travel because they cannot get a Passport because they owe money for child support from having children when they were teens, the women get Welfare but the men are expected to repay the money that the women were given, so many men own hundreds of thousands of dollars and they are uneducated and poor and they will never be able to repay the money, so they are trapped, they cannot travel outside of the USA because they have to repay the money before they are allowed to get a Passport.
I always felt bad, because while I was working and going to school, my friends were all getting married and having children. I never got married, and I never had any children, but it turns out to be good because I do not owe any money for child support and Welfare, and I can travel. I can go to Italy, and to France, and anywhere else I want to go. I may not have attained a family and success, but at the same time, I am still free to travel, and I count my blessings.
And I can still become wealthy, and men are able to have children well into old age, Clint Eastwood and others have had children in old age.
Anyhow, the USA is full of people who are having children at 14 years old, and in their teens, especially in the rural areas, and with uneducated people. And many of them become trapped with huge mountains of debt from having children when they were young and poor, the men have to repay that money back to the government.
Salute,
Tony V.
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