Child Marriage Is Legal In 48 States. These Women Are Asking Why.

Child Marriage Is Legal In 48 States. These Women Are Asking Why.

The more I learn over time, the more America appears to be a 3rd world country with a veneer of high tech. “In 2010, the US State Department denounced “all cases of child marriage as child abuse.” While the State Department was referring to the practice abroad, child marriage was legal, through various loopholes, in all 50 US states — a contradiction often highlighted by supporters of legislation raising the marriage age to 18. Since then, only two states have banned marriage for people under 18. Nineteen states still don’t have minimum ages for people to marry.”