<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The referenced statistics can be found in this article: <a href="http://apps.frontline.org/child-marriage-by-the-numbers/">http://apps.frontline.org/child-marriage-by-the-numbers/</a><div><br></div><div>If 1% of 200K married in 15 years are 13 years old, then that’s still more than 100 per year. Maybe that’s not a “crisis” but it is (or can be) a problem. Can you sue for divorce at 14, or do you need your parents to do it? And if you have sex with your husband, is it statutory rape? </div><div><br></div><div>SR Ballard<br><div><br>On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:42 PM, Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Sort of related to the original subject:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/the-radical-center/does-america-have-a-child-bride-crisis-fa4afdb7b4bc">https://medium.com/the-radical-center/does-america-have-a-child-bride-crisis-fa4afdb7b4bc</a></div><div><br></div><div>And Peron seems correct about how people code this issue in a way that makes there appear to be a bigger problem.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>