People under the Age of Eighteen Should not Be Allowed to Marry

Never get married when you're still immature

Marriage is a legal union of a man and woman who falls in love and agrees to live with each other as a couple. Most of adults are getting married when they feel ready to build up their own family and home which require lots of things. Nowadays, along with the fast speed of life and the fast growing of population, most of young adults involve themselves with love faster and get married earlier; however the divorce rate is also higher than before. Then in what age should people get married? Should people under the age of eighteen be allowed to get married? For me, the answer is no. Indeed, people under the age of eighteen should not be allowed to get married because of these three reasons.

            Firstly, young adult couples are too immature to know what the marriage life is. Because of their young age, they do not have enough ability to nurture their marriage life well after they get married. Sometimes they do not know what kinds of behaviors they should behave toward each other. The young, on the other hand, are easy to get angry when their partners do something wrong or misbehave toward them. Moreover, they cannot control  and run their own family life  with a healthy one, and their marriage life will not last long.

            Secondly, marriage at young age can be harmful to physical and mental health. Young couples, especially girls are likely to have many problems than boys do. For example, girls who are getting marriage under the age of eighteen are dangerous when they get pregnant because their bodies have not develop fully, and this will lead to serious problems during their childbirth. Moreover, marriage at the young age can promote domestic violence and marital rape and other problems such as: HIV, STDs, VD, and STIs, etc.

            Finally, child marriage can face financial problems. Generally speaking, people under the age of eighteen are the age of absorbing knowledge and skills, but they will face financial problems if they fail to do so and get married at age of not yet mature enough. Because their life at school is short, they don’t have any specific knowledge or skills to earn money to support their family.

             On the other side of early marriage might say that couples have more time to live with each other and can be rich at the young ages. However, when people decided to get married, they should ponder both positive and negative impacts of their early marriage. In the early age, people had better to absorb and enhance their knowledge rather than hurriedly getting marriage.

            In conclusion, marriage is a contract signed by a man and woman as a serious thing in peoples’ life, and people should ponder it before getting married. Therefore, people under the age of eighteen should not be allowed to marry because they are too immature, and it can be harmful to physical and mental health and can face financial problems. If you are at the young age and want to get married, you should think of these three reasons carefully.