![]() ![]() ![]() “Now we understand that kids need to be kids. “A hundred years ago, women were still getting married young,” said Levesque. between 20, and that 60,000 of them were under their state’s age of sexual consent. An April 2021 study by the activist group Unchained At Last, funded by the Gates Foundation, estimated that 297,000 minors were married in the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey estimated that there were nearly 88,000 married teens ages 15 to 17 nationwide in 2019. than in the past, child marriage still happens here. Nine states still have no minimum marriage age at all, including liberal states such as California - where opponents of ending child marriage include civil libertarians on the left as well as family-first conservatives. But most states still allow teens to marry at 16 or 17 if parents and a judge consent. Other states have recently tightened permissive child marriage laws, raising ages and adding some safeguards. Since 2018, six states have banned all marriages before 18: Delaware and New Jersey in 2018, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2020, Rhode Island and New York in 2021. In 2017, all 50 states allowed minors to marry in some cases. ![]() With unfinished business, Levesque won a seat in the state legislature later that same year, becoming the youngest lawmaker in the Capitol - and also a burgeoning national voice in a movement that was just getting traction. ![]()
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