Would you believe that in America 33 children get married each day. Tahirih Justice Center, which focuses on ending gender-based violence, has looked at state marriage license between 2000 and 2015. In almost all of the children-centered marriages, the child was a girl and she married an adult.
Twenty-five states do not set a minimum age at which a person can get married, and eight more set it at an age lower than 16. Alaska and North Carolina, for example, set the age at 14. In New Hampshire it's 13 for girls, 14 for boys.
In all of these states, minors who are below a certain age — it varies from state to state — must still get a judge's approval to marry.
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