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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 . 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.
May 20, 2024 · Children whose parents are married when they are born have better life outcomes than children who were born to unmarried parents even after controlling for the mother’s education and age, birth weight, and doing separate analyses for race and gender.
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Oct 10, 2023 · 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.
- 10.1186/s12905-023-02634-3
- 2023
- BMC Womens Health. 2023; 23: 531.
Oct 1, 2010 · With increasing proportions of children born to never-married mothers and the attendant family instability such children experience, new approaches to thinking about how low-income women make decisions about marriage and childbearing are essential for the field to move forward.
- Susan L. Brown
- 2010
- The Effect of Child Marriage on The Number and Timing of Births
- The Effect of Child Marriage on Birth Intervals
- Child Marriage, Unwanted Or Mistimed Pregnancy, and Pregnancy Termination
- Child Marriage and Contraceptive Use
- Child Marriage and Use of Maternal Health Care
- Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence
- Child Marriage and Mental Health
- Child Marriage and Nutritional Status
- Other Health Consequences of Child Marriage
Eleven studies estimated the effect of child marriage on the number of children born, though this outcome was not consistently measured. Some studies estimated the effect of child marriage on the odds of having given birth to any children [34, 50, 63], the odds of having three or more children [24, 46, 50, 63, 75], four or more children , five or m...
The World Health Organization recommends an interval of at least 24 months between a live birth and a subsequent pregnancy to reduce the risk of poor maternal health outcomes . Five studies included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on the likelihood of repeated childbirths in less than two years [39, 50, 62, 63, 75]. All five us...
Seven studies estimated the effect of child marriage on the likelihood of experiencing a mistimed or unwanted pregnancy [39, 46, 47, 50, 62, 63, 75]. All seven were based on analyses of DHS data. The DHS typically asks women whether pregnancies were wanted at the time they occurred, wanted later (i.e., mistimed), or not wanted. Interestingly, six o...
Fifteen of the studies included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on various aspects of contraceptive use [23, 24, 32, 39,40,41, 43, 46, 53, 56, 62, 63, 65, 66, 75]. All were based on cross-sectional data and thirteen used data from the DHS. Of these fifteen studies, eight estimated the effect of child marriage on the likelihood ...
Nine of the studies included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on the use of health care during pregnancy, at the time of delivery, and during the post-partum period, which we collectively refer to as maternal health care [33, 39, 49, 53, 58, 62, 66, 67, 74]. Studies of prenatal care defined their outcomes as the receipt of at le...
Sixteen studies estimated the effect of child marriage on the likelihood of experiencing intimate partner violence [22, 23, 29, 35, 38, 42, 51, 53, 55, 60, 62, 64, 66, 70, 71, 77]. Fifteen of these studies were based on cross-sectional data [22, 23, 29, 35, 38, 42, 51, 53, 55, 60, 62, 64, 66, 70, 71] and eight (50%) were based on the DHS [22, 23, 5...
Five of the studies included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on various aspects of mental health. These studies relied on cross-sectional data collected from Ghana, Iran, Ethiopia, Niger and the United States [21, 32, 36, 44, 45]. Women in the United States who married before the age of 18 were more likely to report experiencin...
Six studies included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on indicators of nutritional status [28, 34, 52, 61, 76, 78]. Four focused exclusively on pregnant women. Two studies from Ethiopia examined the relationship between child marriage and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) [52, 76]. One reported that pregnant women who married b...
A few of the studies included in our review examined outcomes other than those discussed above. We note them briefly here. A case-control study from India reported that women diagnosed with cervical cancer were more likely to have been married before the age of 18 . A large, pooled analysis of DHS data from 47 countries reported that child marriage...
CONTEXT. Marriage before the age of 18, commonly referred to as child marriage, is legal under varying conditions across the United States. The prevalence of child marriage among recent cohorts is unknown.
Mar 26, 2024 · 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 points lower than their 1976 level.
