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Child marriage is legal in much of the the U.S.A.[1]: > The search turned up cases of 12-year-old girls married in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while
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Child marriage is legal in much of the the U.S.A.[1]:
> The search turned up cases of 12-year-old girls married in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while other states simply had categories of “14 and younger.”
Most states have no minimum age, though some have a minimum age between 14 and 17 (only two have a minimum age of 17 going by the map in the article).
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-for...