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Topic Title: North Carolina is finally entering the 20th century.
Topic Summary: Changing the legal age to marry.
Created On: 08/16/2021 06:43 AM
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johnnyboy

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http://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/...d-bride-marriage-bill

>>State lawmakers are nearing passage of a bill that could dampen the state's appeal as the go-to place to bring child brides - but would still leave it short of a national push to increase the age to 18. The proposed legislation would raise the minimum marriage age from 14 to 16 and limit the age difference between a 16-year-old and their spouse to four years.

"We will have moved the needle and made North Carolina no longer at the very bottom of the barrel of states," said Drew Reisinger, the register of deeds in Buncombe County. But, he said, "we're still going to be putting a lot of children in harm's way."

The Loopholes That Allow Child Marriage In The U.S.
Reisinger said the county, which includes the popular tourist city of Asheville, is a destination for many adults and child brides from nearby states such as Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee - all of which have raised the minimum marriage age in recent years.

Two-thirds of the marriage applications in Buncombe County last year that involved at least one person under 18 originated from people who lived outside of North Carolina, Reisinger said, noting that a 49-year-old man and 17-year-old girl recently came from Kentucky seeking a license.<<

I wonder where Q is for this stuff.

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 08/16/2021 06:49 AM
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Greensleeves

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Article shows that change will happen as the old crew (Qs) age out...
 08/16/2021 07:15 AM
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follydude

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I don't know why these Conservitards are hand-wringing about the Taliban.

When you look at the Taliban and Conservitards there are more similarities than differences.


 08/16/2021 07:18 AM
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johnnyboy

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Ain't it the truth.

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 08/16/2021 07:59 AM
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scombrid

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I think they are jealous of the taliban. Just read the writings of Ron and Rand Paul's guru Rushdooney. The fake libertarians want to end the federal secular government so their churches can run godly governments on the local and state level. Their idea of liberty is freedom to establish theocratic government. It is the whole Christian Reconstructionist ideal. They hold up the Mayflower Compact as a founding document because their vision is to have a federal government that does nothing more than fight the furriners while letting state and local governments do whatever they want.

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nukeh2o

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The whole q and incel and lizard people and fascist totalitarian religiosity is no different than fundamentalist islames.

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Cases of child marriage exist in every racial/ethnic demographic but are more prevalent in some as compared to others. Instances of marriage were lower among white non-Hispanic children (5.0 per 1,000) than among almost every other racial or ethnic group studied[when?]; it was especially high among children of Native American or Chinese descent (10.3 and 14.2, respectively)[13] Additionally, U.S.-born African American girls are about 1.5 times more likely to marry underage than U.S.-born Caucasian girls.[37] Girls of Hispanic/ Latina origin are more likely than those of black or white heritage to be married as a minor.[38]

It was more common for immigrating children to be married than those born within the United States[when?]. Between the budget years 2007 and 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 3.5 million immigration petitions, resulting in 8,686 approvals for people in marriages or engagements where one or both members of the couple was still a minor at the time of the petition.[39] The Koski/Heymann study found that prevalence among children from Mexico, Central America, and the Middle East was 2-4 times that of children born in the United States.

In both Massachusetts and California, for instance, the general marriage age is 18, but children may be married with parental consent and judicial approval with no minimum age limit.
In California in 2017, a bill that would have ended child marriage (by raising the minimum age to 18) ran into opposition from legislators, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood

So, as of June 2020, in the 40 states that have set a marriage age by statute, the lower minimum marriage age when all exceptions are taken into account, are:

2 states have a minimum age of 14: Alaska and North Carolina
3 states have a minimum age of 15.
21 states have a minimum age of 16.
10 states have a minimum age of 17.
6 states have a minimum age of 18.

Critics have pointed out that laws regarding child marriage in the United States compare unfavorably to laws regarding child marriage in other countries. For instance, in 2017, Human Rights Watch pointed out that Afghanistan has a tougher law on child marriage than parts of the United States: in Afghanistan the minimum age of marriage is 15, and that only with permission from their father or a judge; otherwise it is 16.[61] As of that date, 25 U.S. states had no minimum marriage age at all if one or more of the grounds for exception existed; this number has continually decreased since then.

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