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.
Some states that allow child marriage, don’t allow divorce until both parties are 18.
No way, that’s a thing? How can this be justified if true? (Not from the U.S so I’m pretty surprised)