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CHILD MARRIAGE
Human Rights and Child Abuse in the U.S.
300,000 Children were married between 2000 and 2018
Mostly Young Girls married to Adult Men
Marriage before the age of 18 is legal in 36 out of the 50 states
650 Million
Young girls and women alive today, were married before the age of 18
60,000
of the married minors, a sex crime of statutory rape, should have been considered because of the spousal age difference
12 Million
The total number of girls married in childhood Globally per year
36 of 50
States in the U.S., child marriage is legal under the age of 18
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300,000
The number of minors under 18, who were legally married in the U.S.
4 States
CA, MS, NM, OK, do not set any age floor.
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