The minimum age for marriage must be set at 18, without exceptions.
between the years 2000 and 2015, 8,781 total minors were listed on marriage license applications in the state
ICRW estimates 9,127 marriage license applications involving minors were submitted in North Carolina between 2000 and 2019. In completed marriages involving a child under age 15, 30 percent had partners that were four or five years older than them—where non-marital sex between the two would be a Class-C felony.
“Many have reported that they were forced to marry their rapists in an attempt to shield their rapists from prosecution for forcible or statutory rape; to cover up case of child abuse, neglect or exploitation; or left to suffer other lifelong, irreparable harm from being married so young,” theWhile married minors are automatically emancipated, marriage also obscures access to education, healthcare and domestic violence services for children.
confirms that 18 out of 20 women who married as minors reported violent or emotional partner abuse, and 11 out of 20 reported financial abuse during their marriages. Donna Pollard, community enrichment officer of Survivors’ Corner, recalled that she was unsuccessful in escaping her child marriage because apartments could not legally enter contracts with her, and the local high school turned her away. She wasn’t even able to obtain medical care for miscarriage complications without her perpetrator’s consent.
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