Last week New Hampshire House Democrats succeeded in passing State Senate 359 aimed at raising the age of marriage to 18 without exceptions, capping a years-long battle in the legislature which only raised the marrying age to 16 in 2018. The win comes despite significant resistance by Republicans, who voted in large numbers to preserve the practice, with 174 GOP lawmakers voting to keep child marriage legal in the state.
This includes Republican State Rep Jess Edwards, whose language defending the practice drew gasps and groans from lawmakers. "When we do this to people who are of ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom loving couples?" Edwards asked.
en.wikipedia.org(lacking,general%20marriage%20age%20is%2021.
When at least one of the marriage partners is under the general marriage age, the marriage is considered underage. Twelve states completely ban underage marriage: Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Michigan,[3] Rhode Island, Washington[4] and Virginia.[5]
Hmmm lots of blue there.
"You might want to google that one, I'm pretty sure spouses aren't responsible for each other's debt, only debt for community property they both own and signed for."
It depends on the state:
"surviving spouses in community property states may have some responsibility to pay off debts (more on that below)." www.creditkarma.com
I agree. I was inspired to become a police officer because I was a victim of domestic violence, and fully support any and all efforts that make divorce easier, but more urgently, helping a victim get out of the household as quickly as possible. I can say that in my personal experience, domestic violence is more directly tied to characteristics of the abuser than the relationship status (married vs living together, for example), in other words, beaters gonna beat whether they put a ring on it or not.
Of course that is anecdotal so I looked for research. I was surprised to learn that incidence of domestic violence are much higher in cohabitating couples than in married couples. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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