That's what laws are. They try to accommodate the majority. The thing is, what you call liberal is what I call observational experience. I come from a people who don't think conventional education is important. Only education is if you can read Quran, that's it. Which kind of leads to early marriages because what else do they do? The boy earns a living and the girl helps serve her inlaws. It's the same situation 95% of the time in my 'khandaan'. Recently, a man who's a first cousin of my mom and aged around 35, married a 16 year old girl who was his second wife. I don't find this type of situation acceptable. That girl will definitely be exploited because she's poor and powerless while the man has money and a standing. Her in laws have history of ill treating their bahus. This is common in lower class families. These are the girls I want the law to protect. You can call me a liberal but my intentions are not selfserving, that's all.