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There’s no romance in being a child bride. And whether the “groom” is R. Kelly, with his marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah, your great-grandmother, or Justine (name changed for protection)—a minor married to a man twice her age in the state of Maryland—more often than not, these marriages are a form of child abuse ... government-sanctioned child abuse, in some states.

Child marriage remains legal in well over half of all U.S. states, with over 300,000 minors married between 2000 and 2018. Every year, hundreds of children of every gender, ethnicity and religious background are married, with no regard for their consent. “Groom” might be the technical term in these marriages, but “grooming” is more accurate.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm surprised it doesn't mention the fact that in a lot of states where child marriage is legal, it's very difficult for those children to get a divorce no matter how badly they want one. They're generally not allowed to petition for one themselves because, get this, minors are not considered old enough to do so.

On top of that:

One dominant reason that advocates are concerned with married minors having access to divorce is because data shows that child marriage leads to higher risk of domestic violence. If a minor enters a marriage and there’s abuse, any hurdle to exiting that marriage has the potential to prolong the abuse, which, Berg says, doesn’t mean as much to the courts as you might think. Unfortunately, she says many states are no-fault divorce states and don’t recognize domestic violence as grounds for divorce.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/child-marriage-and-divorce-in-the-united-states

[–] Brcht@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

don’t recognize domestic violence as grounds for divorce

WTF

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

don’t recognize domestic violence as grounds for divorce

WTF

Says a lot about the motivations of the people who made those laws.

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