• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    21 hours ago

    Probably because kids haven’t figured out relationship nuance yet, and thus can equate all non-familial love with romantic one.

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      20 hours ago

      And they’re kids. Kids don’t typically comprehend the significance of romantic attraction between people, or concepts like marriage, until at least their teens. And even then are likely working off a very basic understanding of what a commited relationship involves.

      Marriage to a nine-year-old might just mean being together forever. But being together forver is a much simpler thing in the mind of a nine-year-old, than in the mind of an adult.