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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.
The child marriage field lacks a simplified framework that connects an understanding of the drivers of child marriage for girls to decisions about the design of interventions to delay marriage within different contexts and support married girls.
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Oct 10, 2023 · The prevalence of child marriage among married women was explored from January 2000 to March 2022 in five databases, including Scopus, PubMed, Web of science, Poplin and Google Scholar to review the related gray literature.
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
Jul 31, 2020 · A Good Age to Marry? An Intergenerational Model of the Influence of Timing Attitudes on Entrance into Marriage - PMC. Journal List. Eur J Popul. v.37 (1); 2021 Mar. PMC7865042. As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature.
- Keera Allendorf, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J Ghimire, Linda Young-DeMarco, Colter Mitchell
- 10.1007/s10680-020-09565-x
- 2021
- Eur J Popul. 2021 Mar; 37(1): 179-209.
Feb 14, 2022 · Research consistently found that women who marry before the age of 18 begin having children at earlier ages and give birth to a larger number of children when compared to those who marry at 18 or later, but whether these outcomes were desired was not considered.
Apr 27, 2018 · Karin Jarnkvist. Previous research reveals that the temporal ordering of childbearing and marriage can have an impact on the meaning of first-time marriage. This article aims to obtain a deeper understanding of meaning-making of first-time marriage in relation to childbearing.
