...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed.
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The minimum age for marriage across most of the US is 18, but every state has exemptions – such as parental consent or pregnancy
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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.
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Child brides usually come from poor backgrounds, said Dr Nicholas Syrett, author of American Child Bride.
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"This is a rural phenomenon and it is a phenomenon of poverty."
UK Independent
Saturday, September 23, 2017
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