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    6. Crumbsplash on

      Most maps here just tell us new Englanders what we already know: New England is better than the rest of America

    8. Schmeezy-Money on

      Yet drinking age is 21 nationally. The 14 year old’s sober wedding night is such a niche cruelty!

    9. General-Ninja9228 on

      This is how rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis was able to marry his 13 year old cousin Myra, in Mississippi.

    10. EmiliusReturns on

      The states where somehow you can get parental/judicial permission to get married under the age of consent are wild. So the law recognizes you’re not mature enough to consent to sex…unless we agree to issue you a marriage license! Then it’s suddenly ok! And age of consent in most states is what? Like 16-18? Often with Romeo and Juliet clauses? But no such laws for marriage. Crazy.

    12. No-Abrocoma7687 on

      Damn the south sucks….why would anyone want to live in that hell hole.

    14. manitobot on

      People have tried to get rid of it for years in California, but for some reason, the ACLU keeps thinking it’s a civil right for children to get married or something.

    15. BizzyThinkin on

      Until the 1970s it was considered shocking to have a child out of wedlock. Most of the laws permitting people younger than 18 from getting married without parental consent are to avoid having out of wedlock births. Being a „bastard“ child was considered a curse back then.

    16. Nightgasm on

      So if your underage wife sexts you a nude pic are you looking at child porn? Could you be charged for possessing and could she be charged for producing? In sure there has to have been a case at some point dealing with this.

    17. mwatwe01 on

      Now do occurrence per capita.

      Seriously, is this actually a problem? Or just a sign that our country has some archaic/outdated laws on the books?

    19. impy695 on

      This is a pretty significant improvement as well. The number was 0 to 13 in much of the country until the last 10 or 20 years (so if you’re 23, you could have gotten married to a 90 year old whem you were 13 in many states). Well, assuming you’re a girl. The different ages for boys and girls is/was a thing and should tell you everything you need to know about it.

      This is a ln excellent non profit that ive donated to for years: https://www.unchainedatlast.org/

    23. Short_Republic3083 on

      I assume those are territories in the boxes adjacent to Alaska and Hawaii; most likely those in the pacific such as American Samoa, as I see a couple opposite them which are likely those in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. I wish they labeled them

    25. Difficult-Way-9563 on

      No person should be able to marry under 18 anymore no exceptions.

    26. fainofgunction on

      The marriage laws were established where most communities were small rural and tight knit when there was no such thing as abortion women generally didnt work and a child out of wedlock meant you had no chance of marriage.

      This is one reason why Muslims say legally girls can get married at 9 because in rare cases girls can get pregnant at 9 and to save the family honor in a tribal system they have to get married.

      The laws are reflecting the reality people lived in.

    28. JACC_Opi on

      I really want a federal law that ends this!

      Congress can end interstate recognition of child marriages, which would mean leaving the state makes the underage person no longer married.

      That’s basically how the Defense of Marriage Act worked when it came to states that recognized same-sex marriages. Unlike DOMA, this would apply to everyone and thus it couldn’t be seen as discriminatory under Loving v. Virginia nor Obergefell v. Hodges.

      But, what’s up with California and New Mexico?

    30. Eos_Tyrwinn on

      This is oddly encouraging. I’m pretty sure that map was a lot worse looking a few years ago

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