Child Marriage In America Or Is It Paedophilia?

‘At first, almost no one believed Fraidy Reiss when she said child marriage happens in the United States.
“That’s not a problem here,” people would say. But the laws in every state allow minors to get married under certain circumstances. As the founder of Unchained At Last, an advocacy group that’s working to outlaw marriage before the age of 18, Reiss would hear from teenage girls who were looking to get out of a marriage.
Reiss wanted to know how often minors were getting married, so she went looking for an actual count.
Her group is based in New Jersey, and that’s where her search began. “When I got that spreadsheet from the state health department, I was literally shaking,” Reiss said.
The spreadsheet showed nearly 3,500 minors married in New Jersey between 1995 and 2012. Most minors were 16 and 17 years old.
“That number was so much higher than I had thought it would be,” she said. “Then, the fact that the children were as young as 13 and the fact that it was mostly girls married to adult men.”’
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