Child brides pose new challenge in ongoing refugee crisis

[JDPriestly]

30. Young girls are likely to die in childbirth.

The body of a young teenager or child is not mature enough to carry and bear a child, much less raise one.

And when a girl marries while still a child or has a child while still very young, she is unlikely to finish an education that will allow her to live at anything above the poverty level in a Western society.

Child brides should be protected when they come to the West.

It isn't some sort of judgmental Western attitude that makes marriages with very young girls wrong. It is nature itself.

Our society once accepted marriages of 14-year-olds I have been told.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

But it is generally not healthy for a girl to have a baby so young. That's why it is wrong. It is wrong to put a girl's life at risk in that way.

We should enforce our laws about marriage. We should help the girls but not recognize the marriages in most cases. It might depend on the girl's wishes but they would be hard to determine. Above all, a girl should not be required to keep such marriage vows if she was so young when married.

That is my opinion. If you go to a country to live, you have to respect the laws and customs fo that country.