Map Shows 12 States That Allow Child Marriage After Virginia Passes Law

In the last six years, a dozen of states have moved to ban child marriage. Virginia became the latest to do so on Monday night.

There are officially a dozen states where child marriage has been banned.Virginia joined Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington on Monday night after Governor Glenn Youngkin signed House Bill 994 into law.The legislation establishes the legal marrying age in Virginia to be 18 and 'eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry.

'This is a momentous day for children in the Commonwealth, who no longer have to fear the threat of a forced child marriage,' Casey Carter Swegman, the Tahirih Justice Center's public policy director, said on Tuesday. 'Virginia started the national movement to end child marriage in 2016; by completely banning child marriage today, it has reasserted itself as a leader of that movement.'The Tahirih Justice Center serves immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence.

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