Marriage at Sixteen, or Younger – Garnet News

Read article - An opinion piece by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses how every U.S. state allows children younger than 18 to marry, usually with parental consent, and how as a result many minors in the United States were legally subjected to serial sexual exploitation in the form of being permitted, or perhaps coerced, to marry.