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While trolling through Larry Solomon’s website tantrum on Biblical Gender Roles where he claims anyone insisting he approves of child marriage because he cited menarche as the right time to marry I found a link to another ridiculous claim that teens are to marry and have babies immediately.
I guess at least he isn’t directly saying that girls must marry the minute they get those periods. I would have to think of a 9 year old married and pregnant by anyone, much less these self-proclaimed Good Patriarchs.
He’s also raving in the original piece that anyone who thinks he straight up approves of the marriage of 9 year olds who get their period is committing the crime of libel against him. Clearly Larry also does not understand that stating someone said that the marriage age is the onset of menarche when kids as young as 9 experience menarche is not libel. If would be libel to say that Larry claims that child molestation does not exist, or he is a molester without any accusers.
Here’s what Larry said several years about fertility rates being the justification for teens marrying and having babies in a post titled “Women’s Ovaries Don’t Agree With Feminism. As usual I’m not linking to anything of Larry’s because I don’t want to boost his Google ad clicks.
A screen cap from Biblical Gender Roles.
He’s talking about feminists here, using data without any legitimate science to back it up. The early twenties are not the cut off for falling fertility rates. According to *gasp!* genuine researched fertility studies that decline in fertility starts to happen in your early 30s, not ten years before.
Larry Solomon also makes the false claim that the healthiest kids are born to teens and early twenties. What does science and medicine say? Well, the same article Larry is using to extrapolate his ideas says that a woman who has her first baby at 34 is more likely to be in better overall health and as much as 14 years biologically younger than a woman who had her first baby at 18.
Yes, while rates of birth defects climb as you age, there’s also another very high risk group for birth defects – teenage mothers. Teen mothers are statistically more likely to not get prenatal care, to develop things like high blood pressure or preeclampsia. They tend to have more underweight babies and babies born prematurely. All of these conditions puts the health of the child at risk.
Then comes Larry’s even more ridiculous reason for teens to have babies – to mature them.
Another screen cap
This is all kinds of messed up! You don’t force people to mature by stressing out young people with adult responsibilities. This is like throwing your child off the deck of the Titanic into the freezing water and telling them to swim out to the lifeboats or die. Divorce rates for those who marry in the teens are one of the highest statistical groups. Add in the sudden stress of adding a helpless innocent baby into that mix and all sorts of bad things can happen.
Even MTV’s show “Teen Mom” points out the extremely high rates of failure of teen marriage and unplanned pregnancy. Here’s a screen cap from their website:
Sorry Larry, just because someone is physically able to be impregnated and married does not mean that it is in their best interest no matter what you think of feminists. It’s sentencing two young people to a life of stress, little education, not much job opportunities, poverty and likely divorce.
Later in the article Larry claims that Mary was a mere 14 years old when she birthed Jesus and that was the normal age for marriage and having children. Maybe that’s because life expectancy was so low back then.
Larry Solomon of Biblical Gender Roles – just one bad idea after another.
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