Is banning arranged marriages an example of Authoritian goverment?

[minionofmidas]

Absolutely.
Why I should I be banned from letting my extended family search for a match for me?
That would be the answer to the question in the thread title.

As to the question in the post, ah, that's a tougher one. Yes, I would agree that a state-enforced marriage age is not really consistent with the ancap vision. I would also agree that it's a necessity (though the age it should be at is, of course, subject to debate).

[minionofmidas]

No its not. It's called common sense.

Yes but this thread is about *ahem* "libertarianism".

(of course here is where I should quote Einstein.)

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Clearly this what Mr and Mrs Trondheim were thinking about when you were five. Going to trade you off to the Daughter of the Mistress of Mr. Trondheim's boss in exchange for five rupees, when you turned 12. Iirc it was the rage at the time.

Ah, but this refers to the question in the thread title, not the post. The thread title makes no mention of the marrying off of children. Arranged marriage is the norm among all dispersed minority groups all over the world, especially so when also faced with restrictive immigration laws with marriage exemptions.

(As to the "ancap" bit, that was just because I don't like to abuse the term "libertarian" by applying to the the set of ideologies commonly described as such in English. Viva el Comunismo Libertario! )