Teen Marriage

Now days most teens think even the notion of teen marriage is insane. This wasn’t such a wild concept just a few hundred years ago though. Teen Marriage was considered a cultural normality, because of people’s desire for heirs and women’s positions as objects to their husbands. This isn’t a typical cause for concern anymore as people are living longer, giving people more opportunities to have children, and women are treated as equals.

Today, most teen marriages only happen because of teen pregnancy. Is pregnancy really a valid reason to marry someone? Shouldn’t marriage be solely based on who you love most in the world? About half of teen marriages end in divorce, because they married for petty reasons, like looking better whilst they’re having a child. Sure, a lot of high school sweetheart’s relationships work out, but typically this is because they didn’t get married straight out of high school.

Is there a point to marriage if it’s not to the person you love? If you marry only so your child has a constant mother or father figure in their life, you’re actually doing more harm than good. The child would have to listen to continuous fighting from the parents. This does a great blow to a child’s self-esteem and their worth as a person. The child would have to deal with these self-esteem issues for the remainder of their lives or until they seek out ways to solve the problem. Therefore the most common reason for teens to wed is still not a valid reason, it only does more damage in the long run.

As evident by many teenagers skeptical outlook on marriage, marriage isn’t as common amongst teens anymore. One student, Kiana Sanders, said “You guys have no idea what you’re getting yourselves into.” So do you really think teen marriage is a solution to all of the problems you might face? Or do you believe that no good comes from it? However you believe we as a society have come a long way since the darker days when girls were married off at twelve.

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