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Thirty-four U.S. states still allow marriage under age 18, and four states—California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma—have been reported as having when parental or judicial approval is availabl...
As of mid‑2025, the legal landscape is mixed: most states allow 16‑year‑olds to marry with some combination of parental and/or judicial permission, but a growing minority of states have banned all und...
Donald Trump has not been documented proposing any federal legislation to change the minimum marriage age; reporting indicates the issue has seen and most recent advocacy and legislative attention has...
Legal and policy developments since 2024 have produced tangible rollbacks and proposed rollbacks that rights groups and international bodies say threaten women’s rights in the United States—most promi...
Most jurisdictions set adulthood at 18 for marriage, but the statutory floor varies: the without exceptions is 18 in most states, with at 19 and at 21, while many states allow minors to wed with paren...
Reliable headline figures on are fragile: official statistics often understate prevalence because of legal, cultural and measurement barriers, while some and advocacy estimates can be inflated by meth...
Bolivia, Peru and Brazil currently report legal ages of sexual consent at 14 in multiple legal summaries and NGOs’ country profiles (see Bolivia: age 14 ; Peru: age 14 ; Brazil: age 14 ). These ages c...
As of 2024 the number of U.S. states that had enacted “bright‑line” bans making 18 the minimum marriage age with no exceptions rose to at least 13, with Washington, Virginia and New Hampshire joining ...
Between 2020 and 2024, multiple U.S. states tightened marriage-age laws: notable changes in 2020 included laws in Pennsylvania and Minnesota; states that enacted full bans (no exceptions) or raised mi...
Rape laws have shifted from that protected male interests to modern statutes framing rape as a violent assault against bodily autonomy, with major reforms centering on gender neutrality, expanded defi...
Four prominent advocacy reports and databases disagree on the exact set of states that currently lack a statutory because states use different combinations of explicit minimums, parental-consent carve...
Since 2018 state legislatures moved from inaction to a patchwork of reforms: some states banned entirely by setting the minimum age at 18 with no exceptions, while others enacted narrower changes—rais...
Women’s rights are framed by UN agencies, global NGOs and advocates as both a human-rights imperative and a practical driver of prosperity: the UN links gender equality to sustainable development and ...
Minors cannot get married with parental consent in all U.S. states in 2025; a growing minority of states have set 18 as an absolute minimum while most states still permit some form of under‑18 marriag...