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In June 2018, the New Jersey child marriage ban bill was signed into law by the Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, and went into effect immediately to implement a clear minimum age of 18, with no exceptions. This makes New Jersey the second state to completely ban child marriage, after Delaware. [112]
In 2018, Delaware passed legislation raising the minimum age to marry to 18, becoming the first state to ban child marriage. It was followed shortly by New Jersey, and since then Pennsylvania ...
Amin, an activist, founded the Naila Amin Foundation to help victims of child marriage and has been pushing U.S. states to end it for years. In 2018, she helped New Jersey raise the minimum ...
NEW YORK, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The governor of New Jersey declined to sign a measure into law on Thursday that would have made the U.S. state the first to ban child marriage ...
Marie Stopes Bangladesh is an international NGO that provides family planning services in Bangladesh. [5] In 1975, the population of Bangladesh was 76.3 million, and by 2020 the population had reached 164.7 million. [6] [7] Bangladesh has a fertility rate of 2.01, which, according to United Nations Population Fund, makes it a "low fertility ...
13 states have a minimum age of 18, which is the same as their general age: Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. Recently, several states have revisited the legality of child marriage.
Getting married before the age of 18 is a common part of life for girls living in Bangladesh. Currently, the country has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. An estimated 29 ...
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 ...