# Teen brides

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 2, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223 "2001-11-02T23:50:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Cornelia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Cornelia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelia)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223/21 "2001-11-04T18:21:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \*  
> \*\*Cornelia writes:
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> \> I don’t know how helpful this is, but Woody Allen married  
> \> a 16 year old (from an Oriental country, i think), and I  
> \> remember they had to keep out of the US until she turned  
> \> 18. This might have been because Woody is a US citizen.
> 
> No, not even close. Woody Allen started having an affair with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his girlfriend (and mother of his son) Mia Farrow, when she was about 20. (She was born in Korea, but had lived in the U.A. for over a decade at that point. There’s some uncertainty about her age because she was found wandering the streets as a child.) At no time did they leave the U.S. to escape prosecution. They didn’t get married till she was about 27. Please do some research in the future before you post. All of this information is available on the Internet Movie Database. \*\*

Chill out.

C

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223/22 "2001-11-04T20:24:33Z")

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No, this is the Straight Dope Message Board. We’re fighting ignorance here, not making up stuff because it feels good. Get your facts straight henceforth.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223/23 "2001-11-04T21:34:55Z")

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No, Cornelia. Wendell doesn’t need to chill out. You need to learn how things operate around here.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-brides/91223/24 "2001-11-05T05:35:06Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Broomstick \*  
> **There ARE states in the union where it is legal to marry a 13 or 14 year old with parental consent, and presumably if you did this in, say, Alabama then New York would be forced to recongize it - but the neighbors would probably think you pretty creepy.**

Why did you _say_ **Alabama**? Even if Alabama does allow such marriages, it is too late to _cite_ now.  
:p[sup]NY wouldn’t allow such a thing.[/sup] :)[sup]but those hicks is Bama would

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