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Is 15 too young to get married?
By Whitney Wild and Eliana Block WUSA At fifteen years old, a teenager legally can’t buy beer, can’t enlist in the US military, or vote; but, in the state of Maryland they can marry. Between Read more…
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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children
By Melissa Jeltsen Huffpost Loopholes in state laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the practice puts young people at risk of serious, lifelong harm. More than 200,000 Read more…
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Report: Maryland marriage laws make forced child marriage more likely
By: Heather Cobun Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer Maryland’s marriage laws have several “loopholes” which can make forced or coerced child marriage more likely, according to a report released Wednesday by the Tahirih Justice Center. Read more…
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More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years
By Chris Baynes The Independent More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. Three 10-year-old girls and an 11-year-old boy were among the youngest to Read more…
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In Fight Over Child Marriage Laws, States Resist Calls for a Total Ban
By Anjali Tsui Frontline As a girl growing up in California, Nicole handled pet snakes, bullfrogs and iguanas. She dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. But when she was 16 years old, she says she was Read more…
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11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida
By Nicholas Kristof New York Times When she was a scrawny 11-year-old, Sherry Johnson found out one day that she was about to be married to a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped Read more…
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Child Brides Join Push to Raise Marriage Age
By Rebecca Beitsch The Pew Charitable Trusts Most Americans think of child marriage as a vestige of a bygone era. And yet in every state, people under 18 are allowed to marry. Some states set Read more…
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Lawmaker continues push to end child marriages in Md.
By Kathy Stewart WTOP WASHINGTON — Child marriages in Maryland are still legal, after a bill to stop them failed again. But a lawmaker has vowed to continue her fight to end child marriages in Maryland. “I’ve Read more…
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