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State-level debates and reforms regarding the minimum age for marriage in the United States
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...
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...
National statistical offices that explicitly publish marriage-duration distributions reaching are documented for at least the (via products that draw on the and vital statistics) and for and (via the ...