Child marriage does not just happen in othered countries "far away". From 2000 to 2018, nearly 300.000 children, i.e., age 17 and under, were married in the United States alone. Most of them were girls aged 16 or 17. More than 1.000 of them were 14 or younger and five were only 10 years old.
In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age with parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Massachusetts has the minimum ages of 12 for girls and 14 for boys (with parental consent) and states like California and Mississippi do not have any minimum ages at all, if there is parental consent. From 2000 to 2015, there were 200.000 child marriages, of which 67% of the children were 17, 29% were 16, 4% were 15, less than 1% were 14 or under, 51 cases of 13-year-olds and 6 cases of 12-year-olds marrying (via).
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