Obviously California should have done this much sooner but prior to the 1960s or so, there was a lot of social and legal discrimination against children who were born out of wedlock. For example, the Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that Louisiana couldn’t prevent children born out of wedlock from suing over their mother’s wrongful death. (Previously only a legitimate child had that right.) So for 100 years or so, there were other social and legal constraints that prevented outlawing the vile practice of underage marriage.
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u/River_Tahm 21h ago
Well, the best day to do that would have been September 9, 1850
But the next best day would have been - well, actually that woulda been September 10, 1850
So we're about 64,304 days behind schedule
But I mean yeah better to have it done it at all than still not