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Changes in state laws regarding child marriage, including bans and exceptions, and their impact on the number of child marriages.
A patchwork of still permits marriages below age 16 in parts of the , but the precise number of states and the conditions that allow those marriages vary by source and recent reforms; some states expl...
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...
Modern birth and marriage records for living American adults are held across a patchwork of official state and local vital records offices, county registers, and archival repositories, and they are in...