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A report by ActionAid has found that families have been forced to marry off daughters in exchange for food. 
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In California, the age of consent when it comes to sexual relations is 18 -- but that only applies if the people involved are not married, The Los Angeles Times reported. According to activists, that distinction creates a loophole where marriage can be used to justify statutory rape.
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Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon (R) this week defended the rights of parents to marry off children as young as 12 years old.
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Republicans in the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-8 to kill a law that would've ended child marriage in the state.
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Samuel Bateman often traveled to Nebraska where some of his other followers lived and internationally to Canada and Mexico for conferences.
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Currently, child marriage is legal in 44 states in the U.S., and nearly 300,000 children were married between 2000 and 2018 across the country.
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A Republican state senator who was married at the age of 15 is sponsoring a bill that seeks to outlaw child marriage in Missouri. Speaking to Newsweek Friday, Holly Thompson Rehder (R-MO) said she married her 21-year-old boyfriend at 15 because she wanted a way out of an abusive home.
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LANSING — The Michigan House voted Wednesday to set the legal age of marriage at no younger than 18, eliminating an exemption that allowed individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 to marry with parental consent.
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Seven states have made it illegal for people younger than 18 to get married, but all other states allow it, sometimes with the permission of a parent, judge or both.
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Sam Bateman, an imprisoned polygamous leader in Arizona, allegedly helped orchestrate the escape of eight underage girls he considered to be his wives from foster placement.
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NAIROBI, 29 June 2022 – Girls as young as twelve are being forced into child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) at “alarming rates” in the Horn of Africa, as the most severe drought in forty years pushes families to the edge – warns UNICEF.
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Buried deep in the ongoing mess that is the Afghanistan evacuation, another ugly problem is rearing its head: older Afghan men have reportedly been admitted to intake centers with young girls they have claimed as their "brides".
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