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I don't get why a such law took so long, but late is better than never.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What century is this again?

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh it gets worse. This change is just the most recent in a series of states updating their laws since 2017. Because a study was released that showed almost 200,000 child marriages in the US between 2000 and 2015. And over the next three years years another ~100,000 happened.

And while it's important to remember that a 17 year old marrying an 18 year old is technically child marriage, and 16-17 year olds girls who marying men who were over 18 or older but less than 29 is over 90% of those statistics. There were dozens between girls who were 12-14 and men who were 40+, some were 60+. And that it is still legal in several states if certain criteria are met.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The USA is a Christian fundamentalist oligarchic theocratic surveillance police state.