Authorities say a missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her.

    • ikidd@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      This might surprise you, but not all that long ago there were plenty of married (and childrened) 16 year olds. Like, more the rule than the exception.

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        9 months ago

        My mom married my 21 year old dad when she was 16.

        In 2001, my ex gf married her 25 year old boyfriend like a month after she turned 17, which turned into a whole spat of men in their 20’s marrying girls in their teens at my church for about 3 years. It was fuckin gross and predatory and we just sat there and watched it happen. God damn fundamentalism.