cancel2 2022
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It’s groping when one is 14 and the other 32.
Is that a legal term? By the way, it is legal to get married at 13 in Alabama.
Just over 8,600 of those child marriages took place in Alabama. The youngest was 13 and the biggest age divide between spouses was 60 years. A 14 year old girl married a 74 year old man, according to the Frontline data.
Alabama ranks as the 4th highest in the country for total child marriages since 2000. Over that time, Texas has allowed more than 40,000 child marriages, highest in the country.
When viewing child marriages as a percentage of all marriages, Alabama drops to 10th. Idaho saw 84 child marriages per 10,000 marriages, the highest rate in the nation since 2000.
However, since the law in Alabama changed in 2003, through a bill sponsored by Rep. Laura Hall, D-Huntsville, child marriage has dropped considerably. In 2000, 1,198 children married in Alabama. That dropped to 190 in 2014, the last year that data was readily available.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/08/child_marriage_is_still_legal.html
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