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The legal age of marriage in the United States, including exceptions and variations by state.
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...
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...
In 2024–2025, reporting shows at least three jurisdictions moved notable age-of-consent measures into committee or onto the floor: unanimously advanced a bill to raise the criminal/sexual to 18 (Senat...