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We found that nearly 300,000 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.
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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We found that some 297,033 childrenwere married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018: 232,474 based on marriage-certi cate fi 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 alld96%dwere aged 16 or 17 years.
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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Apr 17, 2018 · 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.
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Among young women expecting to marry, the majority (68%) expect to cohabit with their future spouse but about one-third expect to follow a traditional relationship pathway into marriage (to marry without cohabiting first).
INTRODUCTION: AN OVERVIEW OF CHILD MARRIAGE. .................................... 1. A. The Global Prevalence of Child Marriage .................................................... 1. B. The Prevalence of Child Marriage in the United States ................................ 3. C.
