It’s not clear to me how or why child marriage fits into the conservative worldview but it’s undeniably a wedge issue for a large number of their representatives, and the recent trend in red states is a strange, gradual reduction of the age of consent.
toomuchtodo•21m ago
https://equalitynow.org/resource/reports/legal-gaps-and-endu...
Related:
https://www.unchainedatlast.org/child-marriage-in-the-u-s/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_S...