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We found that some 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018: 232,474 based on marriage-certificate data plus 64,559 based on estimates ( Table 1 ). A few children were as young as 10 years when they married, but of those for whom age information was available, nearly all—96%—were aged 16 or 17 years.
prevalence of child marriage in the United States (Tsui et al., 2017). Despite the limitations of the data available on child marriage in the U.S. today, what is certain is that child marriage is happening in the U.S. at rates that merit further attention and scrutiny. IMPACTS OF CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE UNITED STATES
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Oct 1, 2010 · Efforts to encourage marriage are grounded in family scholarship on children's living arrangements and their relationship to well-being. But the mechanisms linking marriage, poverty, and child outcomes are still not entirely understood. Indeed, scholars and policy makers alike continue to debate the role of marriage in ameliorating poverty and ...
- Susan L. Brown
- 2010
Oct 10, 2023 · Results. In total, 34 eligible prevalence articles and 14 trend articles were included in the study with data from 127,945 participants. The prevalence of child marriage ranged between 1.8% to 90.85%. In most studies, the trend of child marriage was decreasing.
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- 2023
- BMC Womens Health. 2023; 23: 531.
Immigrant children were more likely than U.S.-born children to have been married; prevalence among children from Mexico, Central America and the Middle East was 2–4 times that of children born in the United States. Only 20% of married children were living with their spouses; the majority of the rest were living with their parents. CONCLUSIONS
- Alissa Koski, Jody Heymann
- 2018
Mar 26, 2024 · In 1976, 73 percent of young men and 84 percent of young women predicted that they would get married. Marriage expectations grew into the early 2000s, before a steep decline. By 2022, the proportion of young men expecting to marry had returned to the 1976 level, and young women’s expectations had plunged to 73 percent, almost 10 percentage ...
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Mar 10, 2018 · March 10, 20183:52 AM PSTUpdated 6 years ago. NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Florida approved a bill on Friday banning child marriage under the age of 17 ...
