while europe slept by bruce bawer, page 57.
the book also discusses the contrast with denmark, where an age of 24 is set for an immigrant spouse, and argues that many people, including native danes who marry foreign people move to sweden as a result (p182). it discusses problems similar to sweden in germany.
this IHT article refers to all these points except it attributes the 24 yo limit to sweden as well as denmark. i don't know if this is a mistake or whether the swedes adopted danish type laws since the book was written.
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this article meanwhile reiterates the point about denmark versus sweden described above (though hear the danish age is given as 28!):
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this page also reiterates it but we're back to 24:
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edit - ...but wait a minute, this US govt report suggests that the swedes have indeed changed their laws to emulate sweden, since the book was written:
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right then archie, i'm sorry if i've been out of date on this one, though the substance of the point maintains - there
were seperate laws. presumably sweden has now followed denmark's lead - in the book the danes purposeful response to the cracks appearing in the scandanavian systems is contrasted to sweden inaction and thus accelerating problems. presumably the swedes have now roused themselves (for more details see aforementioned book). the seperate laws thing meanwhile seems to continue to maintain elsewhere - unless native germans can get married at 14?
apologies for lack of currency notwithstanding, i'm getting a bit bloody weary of this pish about facts archie, when our usual routine involves you popping up like this, me providing you the details you ask for, and then you just disappearing. it feels increasingly like tedious trolling on your part dude. especially when your own googling efforts don't seem to be particularly exhaustive. i'm not here to google on your behalf, and i'm not going to footnote everything with a squillion links. so either engage with points or don't.
on that note; now you've been provided with evidence that this was indeed formerly the case in sweden, apparently remains so in germany, and - as per the other part of my original statement - polygamy is tacitly acknowledged and catered for by welfare systems...
Do you have anything to contribute? do you have anything to say? do you have a point to make? maybe even to the OP if not to mine?
or were you just, indeed, trolling?