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HRW: Massachusetts Should End Child Marriage


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https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/03/27/us-massachusetts-should-end-child-marriage-0

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Between 2000 and 2016, more than 1,200 children under age 18 were married in Massachusetts, according to government data. Almost all of them were girls marrying adult men. Fifty-seven were under age 16, the state’s legal age of consent.

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Children subjected to child marriage or violence face difficulties in retaining a lawyer, filing for divorce, or even seeking shelter. Massachusetts law limits how long children can stay in homeless shelters without parental consent, and several domestic violence shelters told Human Rights Watch that they do not admit children unless they are accompanied by a parent seeking shelter.

 

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A couple of years ago, New York raised the minimum marriage age to 17 with judicial consent(previously, it was 14 with parental/judicial consent and 16 with parental consent only).

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