Sciq With Jayde Lovell

Stupid but legal: Child Marriage in the U.S.

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According to a national report,  almost a quarter million US kiddies were married between 2001 and 2010. It also found, and interesting – that the highest rate of child marriage goes to (drumroll please) Idaho! The state that just voted against banning child marriage.Idaho’s current law allows anyone, no matter how young they are, to get married if both a parent and a judge consents to the marriage. So theoretically, you could marry a baby. You’d have a hard time getting said baby to remember it’s wedding vowels, but there’s no law to stop you from giving it a red hot crack!Now, most child marriages aren’t “Romeo and Juliet” situations, where 17 year olds fall in love with their high school sweetheart.Only about 1 in 7 child marriages are children marrying other minors. 77% of the children wed were underage girls marrying adult men, often with a significant age differences – some of the marriages simply legalized what would have been statutory r*ape.Like in an Alabama, where a US state jud