Are Teenage Marriages Worth The Cost Of Adolescent Marriage Ethical?

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Elizabeth Gillies, an actress who started in her adolescent years, said, “I love being a teen because you do not have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.” While this statement can be completely agreed with, there are adolescents who rush this important stage of their lives and attain adult responsibilities such as marriage. Teen marriage is often over looked by many because of its irrelevance in the popular news, but this does not mean that it is not causing small rifts in society and their families. Adolescent marriage is unethical because it ultimately ends in failure as it raises the divorce rates, increases lower education levels, drives the poverty rate and is established by immature individuals. Adolescent marriage is a union between …show more content…

Teen marriages were extremely popular in the Fifteen Hundreds and have slowly diminished into slim percentages in the Nineteen Hundreds. While early marriages have become less popular since the twentieth century, there has been a more recent increase in the rate of these marriages. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, has risen from 4.5% of fifteen to nineteen year olds are married. Little do these cultures and teens know that adolescent marriages struggle to last more than fifteen years, deprive the teens of maximum educational opportunity, increase the amount of poverty in the society. Adolescent marriages should not even be considered to be ethical because it only enhances the divorce rates. While marriage sounds like sugar, spice and everything nice, eighty percent of early marriages typically start and end due to mistakes. For instance, teens typically get married because of unplanned pregnancies only to become divorced because of pregnancy hardships. These hardships include health issues, schooling, depression and economic issues. According to the March of Dimes, pregnant teens are more likely to have complications such as premature birth, low birth weight or serious …show more content…

Teen marriage is commonly associated with low education, because, “women who marry before the age nineteen are fifty percent more likely to drop out of high school,” (Dahl, 2010). Similarly, fewer than two percent of teens who are engaged in marriage graduate from college. This is an effect caused by the women having fulfill her brand new responsibilities of a wife and mother. With this knowledge, it can be linked that high school drop outs do not meet the requirements of standard minimum wage jobs; therefore, teens in marriage tend to have jobs that pay below minimum wage or not have jobs at all. This does nothing but drive the poverty and unemployment rate. Low education and low wages increases the poverty rate and the amount of children receiving state assistance, which ultimately damages society. Consequently, teen marriage should be seen as crude because of the strain it puts on society and the teens

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