Barrington 18-year-old returns to Legislature in hopes of raising New Hampshire marriage age to 16
The issue of child marriage is a personal one for 18-year-old Cassandra Levesque.
Not just because of what happened last year, when the then-senior at Dover High School watched state legislators kill a bill she had pioneered for a Girl Scouts project, which would have raised New Hampshires minimum marriage age currently 13 for girls and or 14 for boys to 18 years old.
The issue became more personal for Levesque after she realized, while researching her own family, that both her grandmother and great-grandmother had been married under the age of 18. Levesques great-grandmother was 16 when she married her then-49-year-old husband.
It was a story Levesque told Tuesday during a hearing for a new set of bills related to the age of marriage in New Hampshire.
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