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California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

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NewJazz · 1790824220 · focus · HN ↗
Non paywalled article
<a href="https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/child-marriage-ban-new-law/" rel="nofollow">https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/child-marriage-ban-n...
1. everybodyknows · 1790828119 · focus · HN ↗
  > But a report by the International Center for Research on Women found that teenage girls who are married are more likely to live in poverty, more likely to drop out of high school and more likely to develop diabetes or cancer.
  Such a study needs thorough review for confounders, and direction of causation.

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