About 300,000 children and teens were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit that works to help women and girls in forced marriages.

Laws prohibiting minors to marry have struggled to pass. Only 10 states have a law prohibiting people under 18 from marrying.

Pushback to setting 18 as a minimum age for marriage comes from both conservative and progressive groups.

  • @EmpathicVagrant
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    3711 months ago

    And forced birth for raped children as we’ve already seen since Roe v wade was flipped

    • @paintbucketholder
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      1811 months ago

      Republicans: “This would never happen, even if Roe v. Wade got overturned!!!”

      Republicans: overturn Roe v. Wade, pass laws that prohibit abortion in case of rape

      Republicans: “Well, nobody wants that, but it’s the law of the land, and we just have to abide by it!!!”

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        911 months ago

        It didn’t even take a year to start seeing death and lives destroyed.