Essay | Marrying Too Young

I. Intro: Marriage is one of the most important commitments to be made in life. When a person marries someone, it should be a mature and responsible decision. It should be a long-lasting commitment; it should be a happy and fulfilling relationship filled with communication, love and respect. People seem to take this commitment all too lightly in today's generation. Teenagers are getting married because they are pregnant, they feel they will never find love again, or because it seems convenient to them at that time.

II. Pregnancy

a. Pregnancy is one of the more common causes of early marriages, be it by choice or not.

i. In some cases the parents are against the teens marrying early, so they decide to get pregnant on purpose so that their parents will consent to marriage.

ii. Other pregnancies are accidental. Normally, in most cases the teenagers and sometimes the parents feel that marriage...
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