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Missouri bill banning child marriage, seizure of foster kids’ benefits is signed into law - Clover - Jul 26 2025
Springfield News-Leader, July 10 2025
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/10/missouri-ban-on-child-marriage-taking-foster-kids-benefits-now-law/84536026007/
Quote:
- Missouri will stop seizing foster children's Social Security benefits to cover foster care costs.
- The new law also bans marriage for anyone under 18 and voids non-disclosure agreements in child sex abuse cases.
- Previously, over 1,200 foster children's benefits, totaling over $10.6 million, were used to fund their care.
- The bill faced opposition from some Republican lawmakers regarding the child marriage ban.
Republicans showing themselves to be the Grand Old Pedos party as usual.
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ILikeNeurons End Child Marriage.
Child marriage is a human rights violation.
(https://www.unfpa.org/child-marriage)
(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2672998/)
(https://www.ohchr.org/en/women/child-and-forced-marriage-including-humanitarian-settings)
(https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage-problem-study-findings-april-2021/)
Child marriage in the U.S. is used as a defense for pedophilia.
Don't give sex offenders an out.
RE: Missouri bill banning child marriage, seizure of foster kids’ benefits is signed i... - VerdantHorizon - Jul 26 2025
All good news, but I wish I hadn't read this.
Quote:"In 2023 Republican state Sen. Mike Moon’s opposition to the child marriage ban garnered national attention when he said: “Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.”
RE: Missouri bill banning child marriage, seizure of foster kids’ benefits is signed i... - Elsacat - Jul 27 2025
I hope I don't know anyone who was married at age 12. If I do, and they're still married, it's probably because they've hardly known a different life and can't escape.
How does someone not get run out of office for saying something like that? Oh yeah, because he's a white male Republican in a conservative state, that's why.
RE: Missouri bill banning child marriage, seizure of foster kids’ benefits is signed i... - VerdantHorizon - Jul 27 2025
If I'm not mistaken, Missouri was also the state of Todd "the female body has ways to shut that down" Aiken, so I guess the majority of voters there are used to bat-shit comments.