Reflection 1

Since I start writing the issue about teen marriage, I have been confused. Although I know the general direction, I have no idea about my thesis, I cannot find my point. Each time when we are asked to hand in a new annotation, I feel very depressed and nervous because it is very hard to find any source in the vague issue without a specific direction.
My previous annotations are all about the reason why teenagers want to get married at such young age. Recently, there is a news that if we should modify women’s marriageable age from 16 to 18 in Taiwan. After knowing it, I start to reflect the hot issue. Should we change the legal age to get married? I see many legislators against the proposal; however, what motivating them to say those words seems that they just want to oppose without any reason. Although I was against teen marriage before, I cannot agree with their points of view. Their emotional and careless statement on supporting teen marriage may make immature teenagers misunderstand the meaning of marriage and thus encourage them to get married.
After having the aforementioned thought I find I can discuss objective factors that whether teen marriage is proper or not. After all, if I keep opposing invariably with my personal opinions instead of giving supportive evidence such as the hygiene, health and so on to view it, I will never hit the point. In addition, the cases I cited before were American. It may be too partial to regard the thing in a general eye.
When making a law, legislators tend to support or oppose it with a lot of political concerns. They are not those who really face the problem. Actually, those who have teen marriage most come from lower social status or their original family have some domestic problem. However, the disadvantaged have few accesses to make the society know what they really want. Without in-depth understanding their situation and make a decision by central-minded thoughts will harm them.
Finally, I decide to narrow down my issue to” is 18 proper to marry? ”, and look for other countries law, knowing why they make such a decision. It may differ from country to country with different reasons. After taking and reflecting their example, I can generalize something that can apply to Taiwan. Besides, I can find some sources that expose the real corner of teen couples, maybe their stories, the difficulties they face generalize and how their attitude toward marriage after getting married. Additionally, take some moral prospective into discussion. Does it can really equalize rights between male and female to lift woman’s marriageable age to 18?