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In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. [1] The U.S. is the only UN member state that has not yet ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child . [ 2 ]
According to a 2005 study, 4.1% of all girls in the 15–19 age group in the UK were cohabiting (living in an informal union), while 8.9% of all girls in that age group admitted to having been in a cohabitation relation (child marriage per UNICEF definition [7]), before the age of 18. Over 4% of all underage girls in the UK were teenage mothers.
According to custom, the minimum age for marriage is 15 years. The Law on the Protection of the Rights of the Child discourages marriage before the age of 16. [182] Mongolia: 18: 16: Under the Family Law 1999, Art. 9.1.2 the minimum legal age of marriage is 18 years.
Even though almost half of all women in South Asia aged 20-24 reported being married before the age of 18, the rates of child marriage are currently decreasing in the region. Amin stressed that ...
The 2018 bill originally intended to set the marriage at 18, but lawmakers compromised for age 16. Since then, Levesque and others have tried and failed to raise the age to 18 in at least four ...
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have opposed such bans, saying they could undermine minors' rights ...
The general marriage age in Puerto Rico is 21 or 18 with parental consent. [33] In Guam, the general age is 18, but 16-year-olds can get married with the consent of at least one parent or guardian. [34] In American Samoa, since September 2018, the marriage age has been 18 for both sexes. Previously, the marriage age for females was 14. [35]
Jan. 8—Child marriage is still legal in Washington, and on Monday state lawmakers moved along a proposed law to ban it. Today, children of any age can get married in the state. If they're 17 ...