New York ends child marriage, raising age of consent from 14 to 18
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:56 pm
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-en ... -14-to-18/According to a 2016 report from the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit that protects immigrant women and girls, and the National Conference of State Legislatures, North Carolina and Alaska also allow 14-year-olds to marry with parental and judicial consent.
Twenty-seven states have no minimum age for marriage in state law, meaning children of any age could technically marry with court approval.
"We cannot solve the child marriage problem globally if we don't first solve it here in the United States," Fraidy Reiss, founder and executive director of the organization Unchained at Last, told CBS News in May.
Health department data shows that between 2000 and 2010, 3,853 minors were married in New York. Eighty-four percent were minor girls married to adult men."
