Iran lawmakers pass bill allowing men to marry adopted daughters

[Jeff]

OK they say this law is to help children , personally I don't see how making it ok to marry a 13 year old helps kids , this also throws the myth that this only happens in one country out the door because As many as 42,000 children aged between 10 and 14 were married in 2010, according to the Iranian news website Tabnak. At least 75 children under the age of 10 were wed in Tehran alone. This is horrible and if the new law here is protecting kids under 13 they are on the right track but at 13 a girl is still that a young child .



Parliamentarians in Iran (http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) have passed a bill to protect the rights of children which includes a clause that allows a man to marry his adopted daughter and while she is as young as 13 years.
Activists have expressed alarm that the bill, approved by parliament on Sunday, opens the door for the caretaker of a family to marry his or her adopted child if a court rules it is in the interests of the individual child.
Iran's Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists which vets all parliamentary bills before the constitution and the Islamic law, has yet to issue its verdict on the controversial legislation.
To the dismay of rights campaigners, girls in the Islamic republic can marry as young as 13 provided they have the permission of their father. Boys can marry after the age of 15.
In Iran, a girl under the age of 13 can still marry, but needs the permission of a judge. At present, however, marrying stepchildren is forbidden under any circumstances.



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/iran-lawmakers-men-wed-adopted-daughters

[jimnyc]

Parliamentarians in Iran (http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) have passed a bill to protect the rights of children which includes a clause that allows a man to marry his adopted daughter and while she is as young as 13 years.
Activists have expressed alarm that the bill, approved by parliament on Sunday, opens the door for the caretaker of a family to marry his or her adopted child if a court rules it is in the interests of the individual child.
Iran's Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists which vets all parliamentary bills before the constitution and the Islamic law, has yet to issue its verdict on the controversial legislation.
To the dismay of rights campaigners, girls in the Islamic republic can marry as young as 13 provided they have the permission of their father. Boys can marry after the age of 15.
In Iran, a girl under the age of 13 can still marry, but needs the permission of a judge. At present, however, marrying stepchildren is forbidden under any circumstances.

They speak of this while saying the concern is of the children? And not just any 13yr old child, but an adopted one? And the court might even think this is in the child's best interest? WTF is wrong with these people?

[Jeff]

They speak of this while saying the concern is of the children? And not just any 13yr old child, but an adopted one? And the court might even think this is in the child's best interest? WTF is wrong with these people?

They are animals !!

[jimnyc]

They are animals !!

Well, certainly those who engage in any type of activities with a child, where those activities force a child into something that they are no way mature enough to be able to properly say yes to at such an age. One would think that people intelligent enough to be in a court would know this.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Did they name the bill the Woody Allen Child Protection Act? :laugh:--Tyr

[jafar00]

Iran has lost the plot on this one.

Unlawful are your mothers and daughters and your sisters to you, and the sisters of your fathers and your mothers, and the daughters of your brothers and sisters, and foster mothers, foster sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and the daughters of the wives you have slept with who are under your charge (4:23)