America has a child marriage epidemic--and it's even worse than you think

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With more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

Qasim Rashid
May 15, 2024

First, let’s truly understand how bad this epidemic is in the United States. Despite widespread condemnation and international treaties against it, child marriage continues in the United States unabated. As reported in numerous outlets including the Washington Post and The Independent:

At least 207,468 minors married in the US between 2000 and 2015, according to data compiled by Unchained At Last, a group campaigning to abolish child marriage, and investigative documentary series Frontline. The true figure is likely to be much higher because 10 states provided no or incomplete statistics.

The youngest wedded were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001. The youngest groom was an 11-year-old who married a 27-year-old woman in the same state in 2006. Children as young as 12 were granted marriage licences in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while 11 other states allowed 13-year-olds to wed. More than 1,000 children aged 14 or under were granted marriage licences.

And the problem persists. Unchained At Last conducted another study in 2021 and found more than 300,000 documented cases of child marriage, as reported by Rolling Stone ...

Read more: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/america-has-a-child-marriage-epidemicand

[Deuxcents]

1. What?!

[JanMichael]

2. How awful for the kids.

[chowder66]

3. WTF!?

[progressoid]

4. Well, as long as they don't watch a drag show.

[oasis]

7. +1

[3catwoman3]

5. This is disgusting.

[Attilatheblond]

6. It's legalized rape and slavery n/t

[B.See]

8. Exactly. The same party that is working to either ban or criminalize

ALL contraceptives, give rapists legal rights over their victim's fetus, looking to prosecute women seeking abortions and their doctors, undermining child nutrition services and free lunch programs for children, and seeking to undermine child labour laws, are the ones who have tried in several red states to lower the legal age of marriage. Send maga (like Trump) likes em young.

But if you support diversity and inclusion in our schools, history books, libraries, and institutions, it's u support the rights of gays and minorites, you're a "woke"predator/pedo.

The sick bstrds.

[chouchou]

9. I had absolutely no idea that ANY child could get a marriage license.

You would think that everybody would be all-up-in-arms about this.
Call me WTF!!

[electric_blue68]

14. Maybe it's Not Well Known Outside of THOSE States?! Yikes!

[Blue Owl]

10. Sick fuck Republicans like cousinfucker Rudy G love this sick fuck shit

[Aussie105]

11. We complain about child brides in other countries destroying childhood innocence . . .

and call them backwards, third world countries.

Outback India, rural Turkmenistan, fair enough, things are different there.

Could never happen in a civilized, first world country, right?

Just don't look too close though.

Nice touch - Duelling banjos from Deliverance.

[Mountainguy]

12. 11 year old girls being married off to men in their mid 20s?

Yeah, totally normal....


I mean, you can convince me that people under 18 should be able to get married. But we could atleast not let people get married when sex between them is a felony otherwise.

[bamagal62]

13. O-M-G

[Enter stage left]

15. Let me guess, HOW MANY WERE MARRIED TO DRAG QUEENS?