Posts tagged Child Marriage
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Protecting Children in Texas From Forced Marriage and Other Harms of Child Marriage
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February 14th, 2017Nearly 40,000 children under age 18 were married in the state of Texas between 2000-2014. Those are some of the highest child marriage numbers in the nation.
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Report: U.S. State Statutes on Minimum Marriage Age
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November 22nd, 2016Tahirih’s compilation of all 50 states’ laws on minimum marriage age and exceptions is the focus of a November 2016 article in The Chronicle of Social Change.
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Statutory Compilation Shows How State Laws Permit Child Marriage to Persist in Present-Day America
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November 18th, 2016A new compilation of all 50 states’ laws on minimum marriage age and exceptions reveals the ways in which state statutes allow children to be married.
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Tahirih Responds to Pew Report on Child Marriage in the U.S.
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November 8th, 2016Researchers missed the real headline: Child marriage is a serious problem in the United States!
