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Our State Department protests child marriage in Africa and Asia (worldwide, a girl 14 or younger is married every 11 seconds, according to Save the Children), but every state in America allowed child marriages. That has finally changed. Last month Delaware became the first state to ban all child marriages, without exception.
Unchained at Last, that fights child marriage. “It shouldn’t have been this difficult.”
One study by Unchained at Last estimated nearly a quarter-million child marriages in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010.
When Dawn Tyree was just 13, she was persuaded by her parents to marry the man who had raped her and made her pregnant. “Being unwed with child would have been embarrassing to the family,” she explained 33 years later.
Dawn Tyree in her fifth-grade class photo in 1983, the year a family friend started to sexually abuse her.CreditCourtesy of Dawn Tyree
Opinion | One Down, but 49 States Still Allow Child Brides
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Child marriage in the United States refers to a marriage where at least one party is under the age of 18.[1] Between 2000 and 2015, 87% of child marriages in the U.S. involved underage girls, while 13% involved underage boys. The legality of child marriage varies from state to state.[2][3]
The general age of marriage in the United States is 18, with the exception of Nebraska (19) and Mississippi (21). However, every state but Delaware allows exceptions to their age of marriage, such as parental consent, judicial consent, pregnancy, or a combination of these. When all exceptions are taken into account, 21 U.S. states[4] have no minimum age requirement.[5][6] Twenty-nine of the jurisdictions have a minimum age in these cases, which varies between 13 and 18, the youngest being 13 (New Hampshire, females only).[7][6]
In 2018, Delaware became the first state to ban child marriage.[8]
Child marriage in the United States - Wikipedia
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Really America! We're better than this old institutional, religiously approved, old rape cult/culture
type godly training of/in fake lords' of sickness. This comes from many religions, with full approvals of gods of our past and present sadly..
No?.,
Unchained at Last, that fights child marriage. “It shouldn’t have been this difficult.”
One study by Unchained at Last estimated nearly a quarter-million child marriages in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010.
When Dawn Tyree was just 13, she was persuaded by her parents to marry the man who had raped her and made her pregnant. “Being unwed with child would have been embarrassing to the family,” she explained 33 years later.
Dawn Tyree in her fifth-grade class photo in 1983, the year a family friend started to sexually abuse her.CreditCourtesy of Dawn Tyree
Opinion | One Down, but 49 States Still Allow Child Brides
FYI--------------------
Child marriage in the United States refers to a marriage where at least one party is under the age of 18.[1] Between 2000 and 2015, 87% of child marriages in the U.S. involved underage girls, while 13% involved underage boys. The legality of child marriage varies from state to state.[2][3]
The general age of marriage in the United States is 18, with the exception of Nebraska (19) and Mississippi (21). However, every state but Delaware allows exceptions to their age of marriage, such as parental consent, judicial consent, pregnancy, or a combination of these. When all exceptions are taken into account, 21 U.S. states[4] have no minimum age requirement.[5][6] Twenty-nine of the jurisdictions have a minimum age in these cases, which varies between 13 and 18, the youngest being 13 (New Hampshire, females only).[7][6]
In 2018, Delaware became the first state to ban child marriage.[8]
Child marriage in the United States - Wikipedia
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Really America! We're better than this old institutional, religiously approved, old rape cult/culturetype godly training of/in fake lords' of sickness. This comes from many religions, with full approvals of gods of our past and present sadly..
No?.,
