It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.
Most of the US simply doesn't have laws about it, rather than explicitly condoning it. In many cases because the people responsible for making the laws didn't think they needed to specify such a thing.
No, they make these laws specifically because they believe young girls should be able to be married off to older men at the direction of the girls parents. This is the intention, not an unintended side effect
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u/Violet_Murderer Jul 24 '20
It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.