So, to be perfectly clear: for the left, child marriage is the problem, not the fact that the girls are engaging in sexual activity at too young an age. Like the left, most caring adults share this view of child marriage — which is almost always forced or coerced — as “socially licensed sexual abuse and exploitation of a child.” However, the problems of child marriage extend far beyond the left’s lament that girls forced to marry as children do not have “power in sexual decision making.” The left identifies “the fear and stigma attached to premarital sex and bearing children outside marriage” The child bride: Assaulting the innocent

New Jersey judges who legislate from the bench are giving Massachusetts judges a run for their money. In a troubling divorce case last week, a Newark family court judge ordered penal charges against a mom merely because she homeschools her children, with no evidence of neglect or even of poor performance, and even though New Jersey law explicitly protects the right to homeschool free from government interference. The Royal "We": Activist NJ Court Tries to Legislate Homeschooling Policy

Individuals found guilty twice under a new criminal offense called "ongoing sexual abuse" of children could get the death penalty under a bill tentatively approved Monday by the Texas House. US Congress woman Kay Bailey Hutchinson would agree with the bill, passing 118-23, targeting pedophiles abusing children over an extended period with the death penalty or life without parole, a narrower use of capital punishment than a measure the House withdrew last week amid concerns about its constitutionality. Texas: Legislators OK death for some pedophiles