Washington Governor Jay Inslee signs into law bill HB1455 to End Child Marriage We Ended [...]
Read MoreCurrently there is no lower age limit, and thousands of children have been married in the past decade. STOP THIS CHILD ABUSE.. The bill, HB 1455 has a hearing on Tuesday. Please take one minute to sign in “Pro” at this link to tell lawmakers that survivors should not have a time limit on their access to justice. https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?selectedCommittee=17548.
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Help end child marriage in Washington State. Join Zonta USA, Unchained at Last and others to end this human rights abuse that traps children, mostly girls, and impacts their access to education, social services, and is linked to domestic violence, financial abuse and early pregnancy and health consequences.
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NORTH PUGET SOUNDEverett, WA |
OLYMPIAOlympia, WA |
SOUTH PUGET SOUNDOlympia, WA |
YAKIMA VALLEYYakima, WA |
Some 4,831 minors, as young as 13, were married in Washington between 2000 and 2018.34
Some 80% were girls wed to adult men an average of 4.03 years older.35
Between 2000 and 2014, at least 35 and possibly as many as 48 marriages occurred with a spousal age difference that would have been considered a sex crime outside of marriage.36
Child marriage, or marriage before age 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states as of 2017, based on archaic laws at the state level. Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this human rights abuse, followed by American Samoa in 2018, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2020, Rhode Island and New York in 2021, Massachusetts in 2022 and Vermont and Connecticut in 2023. However, child marriage remains legal in 41 states and is happening in the U.S. at an alarming rate: Unchained’s groundbreaking 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.
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