Wholesome Tale of Hollywood True Love That Can't POSSIBLY End Badly

[fallensaviour]

Wasn't Priscilla Presley like 14 when she married Elvis ?

Yes and???
Does it make it right?

[huedell]

Yes and???
Does it make it right?

If lovin' a 14 year old Priscilla is wrong....

[Tothiro]

Is that Justin Bieber holding a dead ferret?

...You had me at ferret.

Wait, what? This isn't a Meg Ryan rom-com vehicle? Oh then eeewwww.

[jds1911a1]

Teenagers are known to be immature and make bad decisions. She is still a child at 16. He is 51. An and adult and pedophile. That makes him way more disgusting in my book. I seriously question the judgement of her parents giving him consent. At 16 she legally can't.

if she has completed her HS equivalency (homeschooled or tutored on the road), as a successful singer she would have the money to file for and possibly be granted legal emancipation from her parents (this is a common thing for child stars whose parents start stealing thier earnings) she may well be an "adult" in the eyes fo the law and allowed to make this decision.

[megomania]

if she has completed her HS equivalency (homeschooled or tutored on the road), as a successful singer she would have the money to file for and possibly be granted legal emancipation from her parents (this is a common thing for child stars whose parents start stealing thier earnings) she may well be an "adult" in the eyes fo the law and allowed to make this decision.

She isn't a successful singer...she is from a small oceanside community here in WA called Ocean Shores. They just had the guy who has been giving her vocal leassons/training/produced her video on local radio. Apparently she isn't in too singing all that well, she is just into trying to look hot and wants a free ride in the entertainment industry. He said her parents told him she received 100's of marriage proposals over the internet and it sounds like this one was the best offer.

Apparently the family is just looking to get rich/publicity quickly.

-Chris

[stuart]

When you were 16, what did you have in common with your grandfather (or grandmother)?

All my grandparents did was #1 talk about the high price per pound a chuck roast costs at the grocery store, and #2 wanted me to turn off that "awful" music.

[Mikey]

They should just make it illegal for anyone under 18 to get married, even if they're pregnant.

I never could understand how some people underage get charged with statutory rape and others underage are allowed to marry.

In other words, this 51 year old guy is allowed to marry a 16 year old ... but if she was caught having sex with an 17 year old guy, he'd go to jail.

There should just be a blanket law --- no marriage under 18

[Megotu]

I am only saying as I LOVE to play Devil's Advocate...and Crisco Twister but that really is another thread...
I am NOT disagreeing with the general thought here that this is extremely wrong on many levels.


But this is a VERY modern invention. My own mother married her first husband at 14 years old. This was not at all uncommon prior to the 40's. 14-17 was the standard age for marrying for females even 100 years ago.
Slight twist on the argument here, there are many many stories of boys as young as 15, 16 and 17 falsifying their birth certificates in order to join the military in WW2. Many of these veterans are now regarded as heroes and rightfully so. The attitude about it is still, That wily scamp. If it happened even once today and a 16 year old was killed in Afghanistan, there would be a Congressional investigation, someone would be in prison and that family would be fighting off attorneys trying to represent them.
Attitudes and laws and customs may change in that 100 years, but the essential biology of the human being has not.

[MicromanZone]

Courtney Stodden might legally be 16, but she looks like she has lived a very hard 16 years. She looks like she’s 28 already. Which is not bad for 28, but yeeesh.

[Nostalgiabuff]

she don't look 16. I smell a scam.

[Gorn Captain]

I give the marriage three weeks.
He'll run out of the house screaming after having to sit through the entire Twilight saga for the fifth time...

[ctc]

So....

Who are these people? I don't know any of them....

DoN C.

[Brad]

I give the marriage three weeks.
He'll run out of the house screaming after having to sit through the entire Twilight saga for the fifth time...

[Werewolf]

14-17 was the standard age for marrying for females even 100 years ago.

100 years ago women didn't even have the right to vote in the US and their rights and choices in life, on the whole, were shall we say, limited. Times have changed.

[Hector]

So....

Who are these people? I don't know any of them....

DoN C.

I take it you never seen The Green Mile then.