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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.
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
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Mar 1, 2022 · An analysis that combines the three diagnosis-focused domains and contrasts it with the two response-focused domains examines the extent to which peer-reviewed journal articles and gray literature focus on each (Supplemental Table 3). Peer-reviewed journal articles strongly favored prevalence and trends, causes and determinants, and ...
] used qualitative data from three countries in Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras) to explore the ways different types of girls’ and young women’s agency may play out either to drive child marriage (oppositional agency, accommodating agency) or to delay marriage (transformative agency).
Jul 17, 2020 · In this study, we synthesized findings from qualitative studies to identify the key factors that influence child marriage. We used a meta-ethnographic approach coupled with thematic synthesis. We searched literature from nine databases, which were in English language, covering areas in public health, psychology, and social science between 2008 and 2018. Twelve studies were included in the ...
- Ayako Kohno, Teeranee Techasrivichien, Teeranee Techasrivichien, S. Pilar Suguimoto, Maznah Dahlui, ...
- 2020
Apr 27, 2018 · The analysis makes clear that marriage might be economically important for couples with children from previous relationships in particular because marriage affects their inheritance rights. The legal/financial perspective has also been highlighted in the previous research (Duvander, Citation 1999 ; Kuo & Raley, Citation 2016 ; Le Goff & Ryser ...
Sep 23, 2020 · Global efforts to eradicate ‘child marriage’ (<18 years) increasingly target governments, the private sector and the general public as agents of change. However, understanding of child marriage may be subject to popular misconceptions, particularly because of ambiguity in the age threshold implied by the term ‘child’, and because awareness campaigns routinely emphasize extreme ...
