@the_control_code: Your prefrontal cortex doesn’t finish maturing until your mid-twenties. At 19, the part of your brain that handles judgment, impulse control, and long-term risk is still under construction, so you’re leaning on your amygdala which is the the emotional center. The institutions that pressure girls into early marriage will turn around and shame them when it falls apart. I know because I lived it. The most dangerous stretch is the gap between when a marriage ends and when court-ordered support actually starts. Women with no income and kids fall through it. Some end up in their cars. Stay educated. Work, even part-time, even volunteering, so there’s no gap in your resume. Don’t have more children than you can support on your own. Plan for dissolution like it’s real, because it could be. STUDIES: Brain development: Arain et al. (2013), “Maturation of the adolescent brain,” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 9, 449–461. The prefrontal cortex (judgment, impulse control, planning) is among the last regions to mature and keeps developing into the early-to-mid twenties, while the limbic (emotional) system comes online earlier. Early marriage and intimate partner violence: Kidman, R. (2017), “Child marriage and intimate partner violence: a comparative study of 34 countries,” International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(2), 662–675. Women who married before 18 reported past-year physical and/or sexual IPV at 29%, compared with 20% for those who married as adults.

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