The case with the Polygamist Ranch in Texas just keeps getting worse and worse. I feel sorry for the mothers there because their children were taken away but letting their daughters marry men three times their age is ridiculous. One of the ways with the Zion ranch is that they believe in marriage at young ages, but with each state you have different ages at which you can marry with parental consent. In Texas the age is 16. They have to have parental consent or a judge's ruling. Also if they are younger than 16 but have parental consent and a judge's permission, cannot be any younger than 14 for males and 13 for females. According the law they are in the right, but forcing them into marriage and sexual activity is wrong. Some of the teenage girls had already had children or are pregnant. By Texas Law, a person cannot give consent to sex with an adult while under the age of 17 and also under state law, they were not legally married to begin with.
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