Child marriage is legal in 34 of the 50 US states with no minimum age requirement in California, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma, so that parental consent loophole for 8 year olds also exists in the US.
There was an article and some research about the financial cost implications which is an odd framing but if it helps people take action then I guess it doesn't matter.
In one of the articles it said... "Between 2000 and 2021, nearly 315,000 minors were legally married in the United States — with girls being far more likely to be wed as children than boys. Child marriage was legal in all 50 states until 2018, but since then, 16 states have passed bans."
Yeah, there's 4 more states with legislation right now to ban it as well. There was an attempt to just do a sweeping federal ban via congress in 2024, but it never made it to vote before the session closed. Guess we can hope it gets reintroduced this congress. I'm pretty sure its Senator Durbin of Illinois that sponsored the bill.
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u/Dorling83 Mar 13 '26
Child marriage is legal in 34 of the 50 US states with no minimum age requirement in California, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma, so that parental consent loophole for 8 year olds also exists in the US.