With great sadness, I receive the news of the most recent legislation allowing young Jordanian girls to be married at age fifteen. Should we enumerate the physical, biological and chemical changes that young girls would experience at this age, and the detrimental impact of early marriage and pregnancy on their health? Perhaps we should read out aloud the multitudinous studies and research to the importance of this adolescence stage in the development of a psychologically balanced individual; one that can grow to be educated and productive in the technological age...ccc The issue is NOT whether a child can biologically sustain life in the womb at age fifteen, or whether she can be a wife at age 16, 17, 18 or 19. The real concern here is whether these children truly understand what marriage, responsibility and the rearing of children entails. Do these children fathom that once married at age fifteen, they will be deprived of their opportunities to develop to their full potential? That they may never graduate from high school, go to college or cultivate their skills to become productive citizens to support themselves and their families in the future? Are they aware that their intellectual faculties, perception and reasoning abilities will change each passing day; hence the decisions they make at fifteen will never make sense at 18...ccc