How did Tyson Fury’s daughter get married at 16?

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I thought they changed the law and you had to be 18 in the UK?

Fair play to her i say. We don't all have to follow the exact same trodden path. Which at the moment for many is : school, uni, work, maybe marriage in 30s, kids in late 30s. Be grandparents.Life done.

What if someone wants to do something different with their 80 years.

When someone dies, no one remembers how many degrees they had

Classic 😂😂

Unless she defies the laws of biology she is a child for another two years.

Im still not sure why that makes leaving education early ok.

And what if EVERYone decides to 'not go out to work?'

The Scots allowing it is surprising

Do something different with their 80 years like what............?

NOT WORK you mean?

Batshit.

I would, yes. Why not?

And in Scotland without parental consent.

I wonder how many Mumsnetters with sons sitting GCSEs this week think they are fully grown adults who should be working full time and getting married.
It's only girls who are viewed as so mature and not needing any protection...

Do anything outside what is seen as the 'norm' for women.

We are socially influenced to follow the same rigid path in life.

I was just reading an article where a woman in her 60s decided to go and work on a summer camp in the USA. She used a visa that was traditionally used for students. She said people advised her not to go as she was too old. She went anyway

If I really did what I really wanted to do in life, I would buy a van, put a bed in the back, get a remote job and travel around Europe constantly.

However I am heavily socially influenced that I should stay in one place, and that living in a van is not a "normal" life for a woman in her forties. I am , at the moment, too scared to do it

Given that you can be at school 'till you're 18 I'm not sure I'd agree that all schoolgirls are literally children.

I don't ascribe to the idea that all under 18's are children. It doesn't seem right that you're a child then on your 18th birthday suddenly you're an adult.

In my eyes you're a child, then a teenager then an adult with some overlapping, ie. an 18 or 19yr old is a teenager but also an adult.

You are not entirely correct. I'm against vaccinations for me and my family. I am happy for anyone to get them if that's their wish.

And I'm calling people on here ignorant because that's exactly what they are. They are spouting views like they're facts when they are simply not true.

Perhaps if you'd faced a small percentage of the prejudice and racism faced by a gypsy woman, you'd be combative too.

the photos etc will make them ££££s. I assumed the kids would follow Paris and Molly, and become influencers etc. The wedding gives them content for their Netflix show.

Unlikely to be pitching camp on our local cricket ground then?
One small mercy.

As I said, we're all different.

The last hundred years seem to have completely passed you by.

If traditional gender roles were so great for all women, and all women are good for is to stay at home, cook, clean and reproduce, why on earth do you think millions of women died to get the vote, fought for equal opportunities in the workplace, fought for equal pay for the same jobs, fought to be allowed to go to university and get a degree, etc etc?

Because they did not want a life of drudgery and being reliant for money on men. Because they wanted to use their actual intelligent brains and do something more. Because they wanted to choose what life they lead. Because they are equal to men.

Condemning a community's girls to a life of dependence on men, depriving them of education and opportunity is criminal in my view. It takes away women's choice of how to live their lives.

I think, reading some of the posts on this thread, that it's very clear that encouraging education for women is a priority.

At least her husband is only 19, I used to love watching the ‘gypsy wedding’ programme years ago (I was a teenager and obsessed with the dresses!) and many of the brides were 16/17 and marrying men in their early 30s.

School girls of compulsory school age. Year 11 pupils. GCSE students.

Absolutely. I find the comments about other women’s rights not being any of our business sad, too.

Without making other women’s rights all women’s business, we would not have the right to vote or the ability to have our own bank account and mortgages, among other things. I have the uneasy feeling that some of the comments on this thread would be OK with that, though. None of our business indeed…

So if education should be a priority.

Do you think that the same level of education should be accessible for all?

As a country, we are behind other countries in this regard

But we (women) were indeed forced to take the path you are suggesting is the one that is against "the norm" . In fact it was bloody awful for women and we fought to gain our freedom from it.

Fair play to her i say. We don't all have to follow the exact same trodden path. Which at the moment for many is : school, uni, work, maybe marriage in 30s, kids in late 30s. Be grandparents.Life done.
Exactly, often the same people miss out on things that they really wanted as life doesn’t align with their plan.
16 is very young. If she was my daughter I’d want her to wait until she was 18.

Did we really gain our freedom, if we don't have freedom to do it anymore?

The ultimate freedom is to have a choice if we want to work or not.

I have choice. You know what gave that to me?
Education.