In some cases it’s also a easy way out of an abusive house hold for high schooler.
My mother for example was beat basically daily and abused by her parents. My father putting a ring on her allowed him to become her legal guardian and remove her from her parents while allowing her to keep going to school and be protected from the state forcing her to go back home.
My mother was 16 my father was 18. They met when she was a freshmen and him a junior. Dates all though out high school.
Sometimes being a little flexible is the right call. It sucks that we don’t have better systems in place to deal with such things. But you work with in the system you have.
In some cases it’s also a easy way out of an abusive house hold for high schooler.
My mother for example was beat basically daily and abused by her parents. My father putting a ring on her allowed him to become her legal guardian and remove her from her parents while allowing her to keep going to school and be protected from the state forcing her to go back home.
My mother was 16 my father was 18. They met when she was a freshmen and him a junior. Dates all though out high school.
Sometimes being a little flexible is the right call. It sucks that we don’t have better systems in place to deal with such things. But you work with in the system you have.
The thing is, for every story like your mother, there’s ten girls who were married off to their rapist and forced to drop out of school.
Marriage cannot be the solution for child abuse.