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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.
Nov 1, 2008 · Abstract. Despite drastic changes in the American family, a significant minority of Americans marry early. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 14,165), this study evaluates the prevalence and antecedents of early marriage in the United States.
- Jeremy E. Uecker, Charles E. Stokes
- 2008
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Cohabitation has surpassed marriage as the most common union experience in young adulthood. We capitalize on a new opportunity to examine both marital and cohabitation expectations among young single women in recently collected, nationally representative data (National Survey of Family Growth 2011-2015) ( n =1,467).
- Wendy D. Manning, Pamela J. Smock, Marshal Neal Fettro
- 2019
1 in 30 boys get married as children.14 UNICEF estimated that 115 million boys and men alive today were married before they turned eighteen. This brings the total number of child brides and grooms worldwide to 765 million.15 In the United States, child marriage remains a pervasive issue. A 2018 study analyzing
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Using the 2010-2014 waves of data from the ACS, Koski & Heymann found that nationwide, 6.2 of every 1,000 children aged 15-17 had ever been married at the time they were surveyed (Koski & Heymann, 2018). However, these estimates have several limitations.
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Apr 17, 2018 · Only 20% of married children were living with their spouses; the majority of the rest were living with their parents. CONCLUSIONS. Child marriage occurs throughout the country. Research on the social forces that perpetuate child marriage is needed to inform efforts to prevent it.
We found that nearly 300,000 fi children married in the United States (U.S.) between 2000 and 2018. No central repository in the U.S. collects marriage-age data from all 50 states.
