Going from "playing with dolls" (at least metaphorically) to being married and expected to produce babies for some forty or fifty year old dirty old man.
Iran passes ‘pedophilia’ law to let men marry adopted girls
Iran lawmakers passed a measure — in a bill aimed at protecting the rights of children, no less — that allows for men to marry their adopted daughters, so long as the girls are at least 13 years old.
Children’s rights activists are alarmed, The Guardian in the United Kingdom reported.
“This bill is legalizing pedophilia,” said Shadi Sadr, a human rights lawyer for Justice for Iran, a legal group headquartered in London. “It’s not part of the Iranian culture to marry your adopted child. Obviously incest exists in Iran more or less as it happens in other countries across the world. But this bill is legalizing pedophilia and is endangering our children and normalizing this crime in our culture.”
A court first would have to rule that such a marriage would be in the best interest of the child, on a case-by-case basis. Girls in the Muslim nation already can marry when they’re 13 years old, with the OK of their fathers. Girls who aren’t yet 13 also can marry legally but must obtain the permission of a judge. The union of stepchildren with stepparents is currently forbidden by law.
But this new bill would change that prohibition and give stepdads the legal right to marry their stepdaughters, with the judge’s permission, The Guardian said. It still needs the final stamp of approval from the Guardian Council, the country’s body of clerics and judicial officials in charge of vetting bills before they become law.
By way of comparison, the laws regarding male marriage dictates that boys must wait until the age of 15 to legally wed.
The Iranian news site Tabnak estimates that 42,000 children between the ages of 10 and 14 were married in 2010 — and another 75 children under the age of 10 were forced to wed in Tehran in that same year.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
As paedophilia is alternatively defined as having sex with a legally underage girl (and there's no mention of that in this case), or with a developmentally pre-pubescent girl, which there's also no mention of, I'm not seeing the connection between this law and paedophilia.
There's not even real incest, as the couple are not related.
I don't agree with forced marriages (and I can hardly see how a girl at 13 can prevail against an adult, particularly one with parental authority), but that is not paedophilia.
“I am the King of Rome, and above grammar”
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
They may not be using the right terms but find me a good reason why a thirteen year old should be married to her forty year old step father.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
I think that he means to imply that now pedophiles will start adopting children so that they can legally marry them as soon as they turn 13 and thus get a few years of legal child raping in.
It has become clear to me in the previous days that any attempts at reconciliation and explanation with the community here has failed. I have tried my best. I really have. I pored my heart out trying. But it was all for nothing.
You win. There, I have said it.
Now there is only one thing left to do. Let us see if I can sum up the strength needed to end things once and for all.
