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What is ironic is the coincidence of "look at shitty Russia with 14 year old brides" when a) US government is shutdown b) Snowden documents keep revealing NSA's dirt form under the carpet.


Not to mention the age of consent in some states in the US is as low as 14 (if one partner is younger than 18)...


The marriage in the article would be legal in California.


Only with a judge's approval -- which I doubt would be forthcoming -- particularly if the putative groom sat glumly through the hearing playing video games.


In Georgia (the US state, not the formerly Soviet country), the age of marriage and sexual consent is 13.

source: Wikipedia [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_sexual_consent_in_th...]


Are you sure, because I just looked at Wikipedia and it says 16 not 13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Americ...




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