1. The time for couples to marry is NOW. Have a civil wedding
and the religious fancy ceremony can come later. Now these couples have nothing; and if the brides to be were seduced, then without the covering of widowhood, they will be mistreated all their lives. It is better to marry than to burn and if passion cannot be delayed, a civil marriage is better to protect the female half of the couple from lifelong ruin. I think proxy marriages by judges would be appropriate in some cases so that the stigma of lost virginity is not an additional trauma to losing the loved one in war since that is a stigma that will cause the woman to be unable to marry a man she loves since she will be rejected by most males I cannot call them men.
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