California is currently one of only three states in the country — alongside Mississippi and New Mexico — that sets no minimum age at all for marriage, allowing a child of any age to be legally wed as long as a parent or guardian signs off. A bill designed to close that loophole for good just cleared a major hurdle in Sacramento, passing the state Senate on a unanimous 38-0 vote this past Wednesday.
It’s good that it’s closed, but I wonder how much this loophole was actually used.
mentioned in the article:
That’s horrible
Horrible at scale
Article says 35k but the quote from the website they used says 315k https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage-problem-study-findings-through-2021/
315k is for the whole US. That being said, the 35k seems to be a rough estimate because California does not provide census data.
Sick. Twisted. The fall of Roe is a push for more of that.
Make a list and throw these dudes in jail
Child marriage is still legal in 33 states, and I’ll let you guess as to those states’ political leanings.
If you guessed Republican, the party whose elected representatives boast a higher rate of sex crimes against children than the trans people they tell us to hate… congrats!
The survivor website Unchained At Last tells us:
9 out of the 10 states with the highest teen pregnancy rates are also, you guessed it…