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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 60 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. It's mostly bible belt states, and typically requires parental consent. So usually (as best I understand it) parents marrying off very young daughters to much older men who happen to go to the same church as them. A couple of states have tried to end it, only for it to get blocked by their legislature or vetoed by the governor.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Its actually most of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

Although that's with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.

Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.

Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 55 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Outside the Bible belt too; the fundamentalist Mormons in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico also have child brides, but I think they're more reprehensible since they also expel their teenage boys by abandoning them in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas to a life of destitution due to being uneducated and sheltered their entire lives in cult like conditions.

They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them; with Colorado City being the most egregious example imo.

I genuinely believe that Mormonism should be destroyed

[–] AtmosphericRiversCuomo@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them

Wish that was us

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Because selective enforcement of the law alone is massively powerful.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago