Iran lawmakers pass bill allowing men to marry adopted daughters

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Saeed Kamali Dehghan
theguardian.com, Thursday 26 September 2013 14.11 EDT

Parliamentarians in 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.

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

Still waiting for Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum to blame same-sex marriage for this bill, since they've compared same-sex marriage to pedophilia.

And in other news, Woody Allen and Warren Jeffs will seek asylum in Iran.

[Skittles]

1. disgusting

[Iggo]

2. The Ted Nugent Act of 2013?

[Quantess]

3. Stay classy Iran!

Gross.

[leftynyc]

4. Woody Allen, while

definitely icky, did not marry a child or even get involved with one. Ms. Previn was 19 when the relationship started and further, he never adopted her so he was not involved with his adopted child or step child (he and Ms. Farrow never married). Try Jerry Lee Lewis.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Can you marry your adopted daughter in the US?

I have never had occasion to ponder this issue before.

And what is the lowest age at which you can be married in a US state? I just looked at a Wikipedia entry, but only briefly, and all I saw was that in some states you have to have special permission for under 16.