Lifting the veil: Why children are still getting married in America. Some US states have ‘weaker marriage laws than Afghanistan, Honduras and Malawi’.Lucy Anna Gray ...

Delaware and New Jersey were the first states to completely end child marriage in 2018, followed shortly by American Samoa. The U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota followed suit in 2020.

Worldwide, 12 million girls marry before age 18 every year. Say "child marriage" and the average American thinks of a developing country, where economic hardship forces parents to marry off their ...

Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., ... That number is based on respondents of the American Community Survey who said they were 15 to 17 years old and had been married within the ...

Revisiting Allan C. Carlson’s The “American Way”: Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity two decades later.

American child bride cases chronicled in shocking BBC documentary: ... “I’m just really surprised to learn there were so many states where child marriage is still legal in the U.S.,” said Flynn.

Nonprofits battling child marriage are looking for more support during the COVID-19 pandemic and have found some help from an unexpected source – the $100 billion American wedding industry.

American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States by Nicholas L. Syrett. University of North Carolina Press. Read the rest of the pieces in the Slate Book Review .

The rate of nonmarital childbearing has fallen from 41.% in 2009 to 39.6% in 2018.We think what has happened, in part, is that young adults in America have become more cautious in the wake of the ...

Most U.S. states also allow for some form of child marriage. The widely accepted international human rights standard is to mandate that people be 18 before they can marry.

But child marriage threatens the bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom of a child more than any ban ever could. Ending it is more important to the health and dignity of American children than ...

"Child marriage creates a nightmarish legal trap that destroys nearly every aspect of an American girl's life," the organization said. "There's a reason the U.S. State Department has called ...