How Young Is Too Young For Marriage?
He wanted to know what I thought about child marriages and the appropriate age for a child to get married. He said his 10-year-old daughter wanted to marry her 13-year-old boyfriend and he was looking for advice. Continue reading
Running From Control
I have edited her email to remove names and other identifying information: “I have an 18 year old who quit school her senior year because she is in love with a 20 year old guy. I am furious because this guy wanted her to quit school to get her away from the other guys. She moved out of our house and has been living with this guy. We are definitely estranged. What is a mother to do with a daughter so messed up?” Continue reading
Would This Teen Marriage Survive?
She is 16, a junior in high school, and planning to marry her 19-year-old boyfriend when she turns 17 this summer. She says she’s “done the math” and figured out that it would be better to marry now than to wait until she graduates from high school particularly since it would also get her out of her parents’ “not-so-great” home. She says she’ll use birth control but “if there is a mistake” she’ll “take care of it and love it.” Continue reading
Young Love
The emotion of love has no age limits connected to it. We are capable of loving at any age. The maturity of our love, and the durability of our love are unique to each of us and the specific relationships we enter. The reasons for our love change with our needs. Continue reading
Teen Marriages
He is 18, his girlfriend is 15, and he says they are each others soul mates. He feels that people put too much emphasis on “things” like income and not enough on “love.” He feels that with love, everything else can be handled. He’s upset that “society” places such a high value on having a good job and making lots of money. He says it’s hypocritical that he could join the Army when he was 17 but wasn’t old enough to get married. Continue reading
Teenager In Love
She’s 15 and in love with her 19-year-old boyfriend. They’ve been dating for almost a year and she says she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. She wants to get married now instead of finishing school, college, and starting a career. She doesn’t know how to tell him that she doesn’t want to wait until he has a successful career or his college completed. She says her parents don’t understand the depth of her love. Continue reading