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Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications - Journal of Adolescent Health. Commentary | Volume 69, ISSUE 6, SUPPLEMENT , S8-S10, December 2021. Download Full Issue. Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications. Fraidy Reiss. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.07.001.
8 In several parts of the world, marriage is an economic transaction that can improve a destitute family’s situation. In fact, “nearly 40% of girls in the world’s poorest countries are married as children, twice the global average.” Why it happens, supra note 7. In many impoverished countries, marrying girls off is seen as a financial ...
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New York. In 2021, New York became the sixth state to successfully ban child marriage.195 Its new law prohibits marriage for all persons under the age of eighteen without exception and requires that all marriage applicants provide official proof of their age.196 On the scale of 1–5, New York ranks as. a 5.
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The exact number of marriages that occur each year involving children below the age of 18 in the United States is unknown, but there are ways to estimate the prevalence of child marriage indirectly. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s recurring National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) interviews boys and girls as young as 15 about ...
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Mar 23, 2021 · Updated 7/1/2021. In the US, most states have provisions in their laws allowing minors -- children under the age of 18 -- to enter into legal marriages with other minors, or adults, with the permission of a parent or guardian.
Results. The final conceptual framework lays out five core drivers of child marriage for girls, which vary and interact across contexts. Social norms and poverty are shown as core drivers that underlie lack of agency, lack of opportunity, and pregnancy/fear of pregnancy. These drivers reflect community, household, and individual-level factors.
Nov 22, 2017 · Significantly more countries set a minimum age below 18 for girls. One country (Lebanon) allows girls to be married as young as 9, one permits the marriage of girls at puberty (Sudan), one sets the minimum age for girls at 13 (Iran), two set it at 15 (Chad and Kuwait), and 16 countries set it at 16 or 17.
