Can Underage Marriages Be Stopped?
Can Underage Marriages Be Stopped? Tuesday May 27, 2008 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)This is not about the young marriages of couples who are 18 and 19 years old. I was 19 when we got married. This is about parents who allow their teens who are not legal age — kids who are 15, 16 and 17 years old — to get married. We would like state laws changed so that parents could not give approval for their underage kids to get married. We think anyone under the age of 18 who wants to get married should have to seek a court order to do so. Parents can’t give their kids approval to drink alcohol. Why should they they give approval for their kids to tie the knot? Craig Cheatham of KMOV, in Missouri, reported about the marriage of a 15-year-old girl to David Leacock, a 50-year-old man who drove 1,000 miles from Arizona to Missouri to marry the girl. Leacock chose Missouri because it is the onl
