Falling Through the Cracks: A Conversation on Child Marriage in Today's America

The Forced Marriage Initiative at the Tahirih Justice Center held an exclusive discussion on the growing movement to end child marriage in America on October 12, 2017.* Watch the livestream to hear directly from survivors and advocates.
*The Virginia Department of Health, subsequent to this panel, provided Tahirih with updated and corrected statistics that demonstrate the impact of the new minimum marriage age law. The corrected data is: In 2015, 182 minors were married, including a minor younger than age 15. In 2017, the year after the new law became effective, 13 minors (most age 17) were married.

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This has got me heated

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I think if it's forced and they are under 16 it should be illegal. My mother married at 17 and still finished highschool while pregnant with me