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

83 points · 136 comments · dabinat

  1. djvu97 · · focus · HN ↗
    It was legal in the first place?
    1. socializer · · focus · HN ↗
      It's really adolescent marriage (the threshold was moved from 16 to 18). Teenage marriages were still fairly common in the West in the first half of the 20th century. Vatican City had a minimum age of 12 on the books until 2013.

      Europe is now more or less consistently 18 for parental consent, but marriages at a younger age are still permitted across the EU with judicial consent.

      1. NewJazz · · focus · HN ↗
        This is factually untrue. There was no minimum age.
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