Kansas Lawmakers: Ensuring a stereotype. |
05-05-2006, 11:48 PM
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#1 | | Not your Comrade Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 9,997 Location: Oklahoma | Kansas Lawmakers: Ensuring a stereotype.
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TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas may have seen the last of its child brides. After a pregnant 14-year-old from Nebraska drove to Kansas last year to marry her 22-year-old boyfriend, now serving time for having sex with the minor, Kansas lawmakers decided it was time the set a minimum marriage age.
On Thursday, the Kansas House voted 119-0 to approve a bill that would prohibit anyone under the age of 15 from marrying in Kansas and would set strict limits for would-be brides or grooms under the age of 18. The Senate approved it a day earlier, 36-4.
Under the legislation, requested by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a 15-year-old could marry only if a district court judge decided it was in that person's best interest.
Those who are 16 or 17 could marry if they met one of three conditions: permission from a parent or legal guardian and judicial consent; permission from both parents and any legal guardian; or permission from judge if the parents are dead and there is no legal guardian.
Currently, Kansas has no minimum age for marriage if the minor has parental or judicial approval.
In the case of the Nebraska girl — a person must be at least 17 to marry in that state — the girl's mother gave permission for the couple to get married in Kansas last spring after learning that her daughter was pregnant. The couple's daughter was born a few months later, in August.
The groom, Matthew Koso, was charged with sexual assault and sentenced in February to 18 to 30 months in prison for impregnating the girl.
Last month, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue set 16 as that state's minimum marriage age after a 37-year-old woman married a 15-year-old boy, a friend of her teenage son. Lisa Lynnette Clark pleaded guilty in March to statutory rape and was sentenced to nine months in prison.
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05-06-2006, 01:11 AM
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#2 | | Herald of Unicron Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,563 Location: Port Jervis, NY | Sounds to me like they're trying to eliminate the stereotype, rather than insure it.
Now if it was West Virginia, she would have been 14, pregnant, and marrying her brother.  | |
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05-06-2006, 01:41 AM
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#3 | | is a freethinker. Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,631 | What a horribly misleading thread topic.  | |
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05-06-2006, 02:50 PM
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#4 | | Not your Comrade Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 9,997 Location: Oklahoma | I dunno, only fifteen? Even if you need your parent's permission that is rather young... Sic Transit Gloria America | |
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05-06-2006, 02:57 PM
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#5 | | Perfect By Nature Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,890 Collection Count: 350+ News Credits: 3 | But it's older than 14, and better than being able to just run off and do it. | |
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05-06-2006, 03:36 PM
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#7 | | Not your Comrade Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 9,997 Location: Oklahoma | Quote: |
This thread is useless without pics.
| Click the link to see the gushing beauty of 14. | |
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05-06-2006, 05:21 PM
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#9 | | PAC-MAN HAT!!!!!!!!!! Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,186 Location: Texa$ Collection Count: 355+ | Quote: |
Originally Posted by fosterlager So that's what passes for corn-fed Midwestern girl these days? No wonder I quit going to state fairs. | Maybe she looked better before she got pregnant? But damn, that is NOT something I'd risk statutory rape charges for. I wouldn't have sex with an underage girl to begin with, but especially not that one.  | |
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05-06-2006, 05:36 PM
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#10 | | tells it like it is. Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 10,443 Location: Minneapolis Collection Count: Too many to count | Quote: |
Originally Posted by misterd Sounds to me like they're trying to eliminate the stereotype, rather than insure it. | I think the fact that they have to make laws to ban it is what's ensuring the stereotype. | |
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