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  2. Child marriage - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Child marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unchained At Last, a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to ending child marriage in the United States, found that only 14% of the child marriages conducted from 2000 to 2010 were between two children marrying each other. [20] In the other 86% of cases, child marriages are between a minor and an adult. [35]

  4. Marriageable age - Wikipedia

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    Despite the law, child marriage rates in Bangladesh are among the highest in the world. Every 2 out of 3 marriages involve child marriages. [153] Bhutan: 18 [154] Brunei: 18: 14 [155] Minimum legal age for marriage without parental consent varies across states/provinces, ethnic groups, religious groups or forms of marriage. [156] Cambodia: 18 ...

  5. Child marriage is still legal in most of the U.S. Here’s why.

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    On top of that, 10 states allow children younger than 16 to get married with judicial approval, according to the center, while four will drop the minimum age for marriage if a girl is pregnant.

  6. Types of marriages - Wikipedia

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    The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil marriage and religious marriage, and typically marriages employ a combination of both (religious marriages must often be licensed and recognized by the state, and conversely civil marriages, while not sanctioned under religious law, are nevertheless ...

  7. A child marriage survivor helped ban the practice in New York ...

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    Amin stressed that child marriage does not happen only to South Asian women, but it also affects women in other countries. In Latin America and the Caribbean, about 1 in 4 women are married before 18.

  8. Marriage in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage. Marriage laws have historically evolved separately from marriage laws in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. There is a distinction between religious marriages, conducted by an ...

  9. Child marriage is still legal in California. How could this ...

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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.