Let's resolve to end child marriage

Per Unchained-At-Last:

"Child marriage remains legal in 42 states and is happening in the U.S. at an alarming rate. Unchained-At-Last research revealed that nearly 300,000 children as young as 10 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018 – mostly girls wed to adult men.

Three main reasons we must end child marriage in the U.S.:

1. Child marriage can easily be forced marriage. 
2. Child marriage destroys nearly every aspect of American children’s lives and the impacts of underage marriage are even more severe for teen mothers. Teen mothers who marry and then divorce are more likely to suffer economic deprivation and instability than teen mothers who stay single – and marriage before age 18 has a 70-80% divorce rate.
3. Child marriage undermines statutory rape laws. At least 60,000 child marriages in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018 occurred at an age or with a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime. Of those child marriages, 88% gave a rapist a “get out of jail free” card, while 12% sent a child home to be raped. Either way, the marriage license made a mockery of statutory rape laws.