Vermont raises marriage age to 18 [View all]

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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.