About 300,000 children and teens were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit that works to help women and girls in forced marriages.
Laws prohibiting minors to marry have struggled to pass. Only 10 states have a law prohibiting people under 18 from marrying.
Pushback to setting 18 as a minimum age for marriage comes from both conservative and progressive groups.
Republicans
The party of forced birth for child brides.
And forced birth for raped children as we’ve already seen since Roe v wade was flipped
Republicans: “This would never happen, even if Roe v. Wade got overturned!!!”
Republicans: overturn Roe v. Wade, pass laws that prohibit abortion in case of rape
Republicans: “Well, nobody wants that, but it’s the law of the land, and we just have to abide by it!!!”
It didn’t even take a year to start seeing death and lives destroyed.