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Making Progress, But Still Falling Short: A Report on the Movement to End Child Marriage in America

Making Progress, But Still Falling Short outlines what more needs to be done to end child marriage in America both at the state and federal level. It contains the latest analysis (updated November 30, 2023) on all 34 states that have recently enacted laws to end or limit child marriage, calling out features that make them strong or weak.

For a high-level summary of the nature of all the marriage-age reforms enacted by states since 2016, please click here.

For a map of all the reforms made since 2016, please click here.

For analysis of the impact of reforms that limited, but did not end, child marriage, click here.

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