Many would actually argue quite the opposite in fact.
However, a woman in Scotland was banned from getting married due to social workers deciding she was not intelligent enough to get married. Kerry Robertson, 17, who is five-months pregnant was preparing to marry Mark McDougall when social services told her she would have to cancel her big day because she "did not understand the implications of getting married". Under Scottish law, a registrar may refuse to marry a couple if he believes one or both the parties lack the mental capacity to understand what the institution of marriage is about. Kerry has mild learning difficulties and has been in the care of her grandmother since she was nine-months-old after her parents were unable to look after her. She will now undergo a psychologist’s assessment to determine if she is too unintelligent to get married.
The couple said they are concerned their baby may be taken away from them if the council decides they are not smart enough to be parents. Mr McDougall said Miss Robertson’s learning difficulties are not severe and the decision was cruel. He said:
“It’s true she is not very academic, but she is nowhere near as stupid as social services are making out.
"She is a loving caring person. She can also read and write, although not very well, and was going to college to catch up.
"I didn’t even know she had learning difficulties until we’d been dating for two months.
"For the first time in her life Kerry was truly happy so we cannot understand what all the fuss is about."
This all got me thinking how useful it would be if all people wanting to get married, or have sex with each other, actually had to pass some sort of tests of their intelligence and of their emotional fitness to be parents. Think of all the social problems that might be avoided if people actually had to meet some sort of standard of fitness to be together.
lol finally someone who tells it how it is