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Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, usually between a child and an adult, but can also be between a child and another child. [1] Although the age of majority (legal adulthood) and marriage age are typically 18 years old, these thresholds can differ in different jurisdictions. [2]
Historically, child marriage has been a culturally acceptable practice, but it is increasingly viewed as a form of child sexual abuse. [26] It is an internationally recognised health and human rights violation disproportionately affecting girls, globally. [27]
Legislation banning child marriage has struggled in some states due to backlash from both conservative and progressive voices. Earlier this year, for instance, ...
A child marriage is a marriage where one or both spouses are under the age of 18. [37] [38] It is related to child betrothal and teenage pregnancy. Child marriage was common throughout history, even up until the 1900s in the United States, where in 1880 CE, in the state of Delaware, the age of consent for marriage was 7 years old. [39]
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Child marriage also is recognized as a human rights abuse; it destroys nearly every aspect of an American girl’s life, including her sexual and reproductive rights.
The child marriage prevention laws have been challenged in Indian courts, [4] with some domestic Muslim organizations seeking no minimum age and that the age matter be left to their personal law. [6] [7] Child marriage is an active political subject as well as a subject of continuing litigation under review in the highest courts of India. [6]
"The negative consequences associated with child marriage are a violation of child rights, especially those of girls. Eighty-six percent of child marriages in the U.S. involve a girl married to a ...