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Yes, I think that families should ultimately remain together and provide a healthy, nurturing environment for their children. But many times divorce would help out.
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i agree with this, actually, and kind of alluded to it. The sad thing is that often these relationships are replaced with other abusive relationships. But anyway, this is probably the type of response I'll give to jeanette in a little while if she keeps arguing about what is most good for the family institution.
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And about people marrying underage children: I might be mistaken but isn't parental consent required for someone under the age of eighteen to be married? If that's the case and an underage child is married then I'd blame the parent for the immorality of the situation.
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Certainly you could argue something like that. But you could also ask if giving the parents the rights to allow their kids to marry at a young age makes society unjust.
but that's actually not the point I was getting at. The point is that if we allow anybody who has love and commitment to one another to marry, then we should allow many types of marriages we wouldn't normally allow: Group marriages, pedophilean, and incestual just to name a few because these person's can love each other just like gay people can. I guess focusing on group marriages and polygamy is better because it doesn't seem as ridiculous...
This merely indicates that the love persons have for eachother isn't the sole reason they should be allowed to marry. Many people's arguments boiled down to something like this, or that people should have the priveledge of marriage however they want and we shouldn't interfere because it's not our business.