Denmark bans child marriage after dozens of asylum seeking teens arrive with spouses

What a racist Bear you are.

It's not pedophilia or abuse if they are Muslim, its an expression of culture.










I jest of course, these people disgust me. But then so the Danes for allowing these people in. It's akin to inviting the local homeless person into your house.

Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage, same sex marriages conducted in some states weren't even recognised in other U.S. states - so what makes you think other countries are somehow bound by international law in such a way?

Private international law exists to resolve these situations hence it is called conflict or comparative law. These rules will alrady exist. If you didnt have them and didnt start off with respecting that other people do things differently and where possible you should respect that then you would have the situation nobody respected anyone elses laws. In this case if you didnt get narried the danish way then you arent married, even though its accpeted in the home country. There are ofc limits and this is what the gvernment has decided to try and tackle, bt its more a cack handed way of dealing with anasylum issue and what they believe is an attempt to defeat it. It looks illegal anyway.

I don't think this has much relevance to PIL; the Hague Marriage Convention only has 6 signatories.

If Denmark stops recognising, say, Saudi child-marriages, I'm sure they won't mind if Saudi stops recognising Danish marriages (given there is no recognition of same-sex marriages conducted in Denmark in such countries anyway)...

I don't understand - why was child marriage not already banned?

What a racist Bear you are.

It's not pedophilia or abuse if they are Muslim, its an expression of culture.










I jest of course, these people disgust me. But then so the Danes for allowing these people in. It's akin to inviting the local homeless person into your house.

Surely the logical corollary of child marriage not being legal in X country is that child marriages (wherever they were conducted) are not recognised as legal in X country?

The only thing I take issue with is the cutoff age... why is it 18 and not 16?

Why should it be 16? What is special about 16 in Denmark?

Say an 18 year old marries a 16 year old in x middle eastern country, why should their marriage be delegitimised?

(I can understand it for 40 year olds being married to children and all that however)

Say an 18 year old marries a 16 year old in x middle eastern country, why should their marriage be delegitimised?

(I can understand it for 40 year olds being married to children and all that however)

Why should the 17 year old who marries the 15 year old's marriage be delegitimised?

What you are really doing is a bit of cultural imperialism at the expense of the Danes. You feel 16 is the correct age because it is the age in the UK.

this is a troll right?

how can you say its ok for an 18 year old to marry a 16 year old but not a 40 year old.

That's just ****ed up, and you know it.

So at what age ought you to be able to marry a 16 year old? 39? 29? 24? 19?

Can this 40 year old marry an 18 year old or a 24 old or a 32 year old?

Well that's not really for me to decide, but I was getting at the fact that if two people apply for asylum (with that age gap) in Denmark who are married, then the chances are it's a sham.