Report:

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...

If you’re not trusted to drink you shouldn’t be trusted to get married.

It’ll never get past the conservatives in the Senate.

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.