Vermont raises marriage age to 18

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Source: MSN

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed legislation Thursday raising the marriage eligibility age in the Green Mountain State to 18.

With Scott's signature, Vermont became the eighth state in the United States to ban child marriage, according to a report.

Roughly 300,000 people under the age of 18 were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to a New Jersey-based lobbying group cited in the report.

The majority of those marriages were between girls and grown men, and 80% of the 289 children married in Vermont between 2000 and 2021 were girls being married to adult men, the report noted.


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vermont-raises-marriage-age-to-18/ar-AA1aaNqV

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Here's a link to the lobbying group mentioned in the article, if anyone needs help or further information.

https://www.unchainedatlast.org/unchained-at-a-glance/

MISSION
Unchained At Last is a survivor-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and advocacy.

Unchained provides crucial legal and social services, always for free, to help women, girls and others in the U.S. to escape arranged/forced marriages and rebuild their lives. At the same time, Unchained pushes for social, policy and legal change; the organization started and now leads a growing national movement to eliminate child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level.

Unchained At Last envisions a world where a girl is never a bride, and where every adult is free to choose whether, when and whom to marry, and whether to get divorced.

Girls, women and others across the U.S. are being pressured, tricked, threatened or beaten into marriage. And those who face little or no choice when they enter a marriage typically face the same if they want to leave it.

[Tarc]

1. I don't understand what Gov. Scott sees in the GOP Party

He and a few other recent northeast GOP governors are just about he last mostly-sane ones left in the party. We haven't even run a serious candidate against him since 2018.

[yaesu]

2. That will piss off the grand old pedophiles for sure nt

[marble falls]

3. What is it with male GOP politicians named Scott, or Ron or Ron Scott? Glad they did it, but sad ...

... it had to be in 2023.

[TeamProg]

4. It replaces the existing practice, which authorizes the consent of 16- and 17-year-old Vermonters if

of 16- and 17-year-old Vermonters if they have the consent of at least one parent, the report noted.

[cbabe]

5. Child marriage becomes a legal loophole in custody fights

https://nypost.com › 2022 › 03 › 02 › child-marriage-becomes-a-legal-loophole-in-custody-fights

Child marriage becomes a legal loophole in custody fights

Mar 2, 2022The children both slipped through a common legal loophole in child marriage laws across the United States: It often only takes one parent to consent to let a 16- or 17-year-old child get...

[jgo]

9. Here's a link about loophole

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-united-states-idaho-marriage-77aa756078763ebcc0aa1a148dee83bb

[getagrip_already]

6. Just curious,.....

What is the defining of adult or grown men?

People are adults at 18, grown is a vague term, but 18 is a lot different than 40.

[MarcA]

8. Good Point. Ideas of what's an adult changes over time.

Once girls 16 or 17 would elope with guys under 21 or even 18 crossing Statelines to get married without or even against their parents' wishes.

[Martin68]

7. New England is going in the sensible, progressive, direction. As opposed to the South, Midwest and

wherever MAGAts are turning the clock back to medieval ways of thinking.

[ck4829]

10. K&R