US: Pregnant at 15, married at 16: She’s speaking out to end child marriages (Includes video)
NBC News – October 15, 2021
Chloe’s story is not as uncommon as it might seem. From 2000 to 2018, nearly 300,000 minors under the age of 18 were legally married in the U.S., according to a recent estimate by the nonprofit Unchained at Last, which obtained marriage certificates from 32 states and partial data from 12 others. Roughly 86 percent of the children were girls and nearly 60,000 of the marriages involved an age difference such that the younger spouse could have been considered a victim of a sex crime.
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