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?

I think Venezuelas life sounds nice.

She has the added benefit of her father being a millionaire to fall back on.

She is with someone she loves.

If it all goes tits up , her dad will bail her out. She knows that

Impressed you managed to type that out one-handed

Her dreadful parents seem to think it's acceptable. That poor girl should be doing her GCSE's instead of being married off to another teen.

I have zero patience for patriarchal cultures.

The city I live in has a Roma population who have a tradition of taking girls out of education at age 11 (just before they are due to start secondary school), early marriage and very young mothehood. A family who I assume lived near me actually used my address to register their daughter at one of the local schools ( I assume they used their real address for the intial registration where they would have had to show proof of where they lived and then told the school they had "moved" to my house) . The child was then taken out of school and I had a visit and letters from the attendance officer. This was not the only thing that they had used my address for and i had a period of time when I was getting a lot of letters about various monies owed but the missing girl was the thing that really concerned me

I agree. If a woman is married to a man she respects and loves, he takes care of things financially while she takes care of the house and children, I can very well imagine that she's happy.

Why not?

I think the point is you get used to some posters on here just assuming England means the UK. Yes it's the biggest by far by population but Scotland for example has an entire different education and law system.

Oh I see the standard MN response that I'm a man to think this way.
(Assuming, of course, that this is a crude reference to maturbation.)

Oh maybe the crude reference and no actual considered reply means I've struck a nerve with you?

Some cultures 12 is ok

And I'm going to judge

A quick Google suggests 500 but he regrets it, so that's ok. I can't imagine he'd be quite so forgiving if it was his wife sleeping around.

In 2023, the law in England and Wales was changed from 16 to 18. Prior to 2023, 16 and 17-year-olds were permitted to marry with parental consent.

The amount of women on here judging Traveller traditions but use childcare while they work.
We judge you too. We think you are shit parents and lead terrible lives.

The couple looked so much older than they are. I feel a bit sorry for them really, they’ve not got a clue have they!

That's one of those comments that are so uneducated and just stupid.

The same as you see from people who don't understand feminism and think it forced women to work and not be SAHM.

The point is rights and choices.

If you have the right and choices to do whatever you want and you choose to not work and raise kids, fine.

It's very different when you don't have the right and you don't have the option.

That's what a lot of the feminist work movement was about and what is usually lacking in these communities and sociities.

Don't be a dumb-ass saying well 'if I was given the choice to not work, I'd choose not to' is missing the point. It isn't a choice for these women.

Not having a choice and not being able to be educated, earn your own money, have your own profession/career and make decisions about your own life is actually really shit and dangerous if you happen to have married someone who's abusive or just lazy.

Or he might be alright. He might just be fine but he doesn't make you happy or you're unfulfilled but you spend up to 50 years married living a half-life because you don't have the money, education or skills to leave and live your own life.

And that's what these communities depend on.

Most people if given the choice of working or not, would choose not to. The complexity is in what that means.

The government (the Scottish one) already has.

Nobody is judging traveller for choosing to be SAHMs though, are they?

Are you a traveller? Im one of the ones that didnt judge. I think many travellers have designed easier lives and thats ok.

A lot of women are suffering from burnout trying to do everything

The boys don’t typically stay in school past 12 either. I went to school with travellers and all were pulled out after year 7. The boys get taught to work and girls to cook and clean. I agree it seems regressive and sad.

Yes I would. I think the majority of us would agree that getting married at 16 (in whatever circumstances, for whatever reason reason) isn’t a good idea.

So the whole traveller community, the vast majority of whom are uneducated, has decided that every school in the UK is" an absolute pit"? Surely you can realise that cannot be true across the whole sector.

What alternative schooling do children get? The answer's none isn't it?

Cooking and cleaning are important for basic hygiene and for health obviously, but they shouldn't be the be all and end all of anyone's life( unless they're a chef).

But it's traveller women who do it isn't it? You don't see many traveller men making a song and dance about it and making it central to their whole lives. They think their wives should do it, because they have rigid ideas about roles and believe that cooking and cleaning are secondary roles and therefore only suitable for women to do, because females are less important.

I would like enlightenment but your comments so far haven't shed much light on the culture.

No but they were judged on here for leaving education which is the natural first step to being a sahm

I do think it's hilarious that some are romanticising the traveller lifestyle for women as some kind of trad wife dream

I’m sorry but I think someone who sends their DC to nursery is a better parent than one who pulls them out of education entirely at 12 and lets them get married at 16.

I absolutely will comment on cultural practice when it restricts people, particularly the young who have perhaps not had the opportunity to make an objective choice. My own cultural background is restrictive, damaging and allows for grooming with everything 'unsaid'.
Until cultural tradition is a genuine choice there is always the risk of abuse.

Not more regressive than the absolutely corrupt education system in England.

Mostly, Only people with money/circumstnances get a good education, then get a good job and a good life. Its not fair in any way.