Short story: My wife were childfree. We adopted our 14 year old son. He is in college now. We live back in my home town of LA.

I learned recently that at 6 he was betrothed to a 6 year old girl when they both lived in Myanmar.

He will graduate in a year from UCLA. She is going to school to be a doctor in Denmark and has four years to go. Her scholarship requires her to work at least six years in Denmark as a doctor (Something like that, I don’t know the details).

The agreement was that they would marry when he completes collage.

She wants to go forward with it. She is pretty, and super smart. She would gain a lot because a Dr makes bank in LA.

He is not interested, because he has his pick of women in LA.

Only he feels bad because in Myanmar he is insulting her family.

My wife is indifferent.

He is like me. He will get a vasectomy, get married and adopt a child in need. She is very conservative and wants to have a baby. That is a dealbreaker.

I see the advantages of him getting married to her. That said, I would never expect him to go forward with it.

What would you tell him? I am just curious.