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Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications - Journal of Adolescent Health. Commentary | Volume 69, ISSUE 6, SUPPLEMENT , S8-S10, December 2021. Download Full Issue. Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications. Fraidy Reiss. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.07.001.
This is not because Alabama, Mississippi, and Missouri are more convenient or attractive places to get married in general, however. For Tennessee brides who married at age 16, 4% traveled to Alabama, Mississippi, or Missouri; this compares with 18% who traveled to Georgia, Kentucky, or Virginia.
- Gordon B. Dahl
- 10.1353/dem.0.0120
- 2010
- Demography. 2010 Aug; 47(3): 689-718.
New York. In 2021, New York became the sixth state to successfully ban child marriage.195 Its new law prohibits marriage for all persons under the age of eighteen without exception and requires that all marriage applicants provide official proof of their age.196 On the scale of 1–5, New York ranks as. a 5.
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Jul 31, 2020 · Unlike the earlier article on gender differences, we provide a comprehensive treatment of links between timing attitudes and marriage by theorizing an intergenerational model of how timing attitudes influence children’s entrance into marriage and empirically testing multiple pathways from the model.
- 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.
Jul 17, 2020 · However, the practice of child marriage not only affects the girls who are getting married at a young age, but also affects the girls’ offspring. This has been associated with adverse child outcomes including preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction, infant mortality, and child undernutrition [ 16 ].
- Ayako Kohno, Teeranee Techasrivichien, Teeranee Techasrivichien, S. Pilar Suguimoto, Maznah Dahlui, ...
- 2020
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Nov 24, 2021 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Pregnant at 15 and married a year later to her youth pastor, Ashley Pereira still sees how the consequences of her child marriage impact her to this day. She now...
At the time, however, there was no minimum marriage age in Tennessee and minors did not need parental permission. News of their union prompted outrage around the country. National magazines and...
