Calling All Proofreaders
My plans have been thwarted!
All of my daughter’s–my five year old daughter’s–friends are all boys. And I was just about ready to pick one and off they would go to get married!
Okay, not really, but as I’m reading through the news of the weird, I stumble upon this on AOL. To summarize, apparently Arkansas lawmakers have closed a loophole they had inadvertedly created several months ago when they re-wrote the law governing the legal age for marriage. Instead of setting the legal limit for marriage, they eliminated it all together. Thus, my five year old daughter could have easily married her four and a half year old friend. All they needed was both sets of parents’ permission and a lengthy drive to Arkansas.
How does something this silly happen? I mean, honestly. Doesn’t anybody read this stuff before they vote and sign on it? Don’t they have some kind of special legislative proofreader whose sole task is to keep goofy crap like this from happening?
Apparently not…
