Amongst other things I’m shocked that people/countries who take the moral high ground have their own backyard to clean up.
And I’m sorry but I have absolutely no experience of childbrides. It’s something I’ve heard about but it’s not part of my life experience and I can’t even recall having a conversation with anyone about it here.
The age of consent here is 18, and people have to be 18 to get married however a judge can rule that a person can get married before that. Figures I’ve just read showed that in 1989 when the county was 18 years old 51% of girls were married before the age of 18. In 2014 which are the latest figures I can find it was 4% with 1% being married before the age of 15.
I have never attended a wedding where the girl/woman wasn’t at least a school graduate after 12 years of education and working (probably after college at least for a couple of years).
It’s education, education, education all the way here and I think I’d pass out if I came across any family where a young girl was married. I’m actually having palpitations thinking about it, the concept of it is so alien to anything I know in the part of the world where I am. I think the last figures I saw in the paper for the average age to get married was the late 20’s.
Now back to Harry and Meghan.