We can't even be bothered to investigate those who are in the Epstein files.

I wonder

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/36-oklahoma-republicans-vote-against-child-marriage-ban/ar-AA24bCyP

What kind of people

https://www.newsweek.com/these-michigan-republicans-voted-against-child-marriage-ban-1808308

Consistently vote against it?

https://www.newsweek.com/jess-edwards-teen-child-marriage-opposed-republican-ripe-fertile-age-1897512

An especially cruel catch-22 in child marriage is that the underage person cannot file for divorce until they're an adult.

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-child-marriage/

Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are pro-child marriage and they spend big to keep it legal.

Children have a right to marry, the ACLU argues, and stripping them of that right would take away a pathway to their emancipation and independent healthcare decisions. For Planned Parenthood, the freedom for children to marry is about allowing people reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

But their efforts have repeatedly failed in California, where Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have lobbied hard against restricting child marriage, although those groups have largely stayed silent on the issue in other Democratic-controlled states.

In a June opposition letter, the organization wrote, “Prohibiting minors from marrying in every case is a departure from California’s longstanding commitment to honoring minors’ ability to make important personal decisions for themselves, particularly in the realm of reproductive autonomy.”

These two organizations are entirely misled and spreading misleading information on this issue and are harming kids (vast majority are young girls) with that rhetoric above. Emancipation and reproductive autonomy should not be tied to marriage in the first place.

It’s interesting to point out too that some of these states, like Oklahoma, only joined the list within the last year as well.

CalMatters (Click on Votes)

In the assembly, it looks like 8 Republicans voted against and 5 more abstained.

ACLU California Action and the City of Mission Viejo also opposed the legislation. (Click on Supporters and Opponents to read the ACLU's opinion.)

Sounds like wikipedia needs an update, it's at least banned in missouri as of like a year ago despite failing a number of times in recent history.

https://www.recordinglaw.com/news/missouri-child-marriage-ban-emancipation/

Map of places where a judge can OK a marriage. I’m not saying the USA is good, but Europe has plenty of spots wheee you can technically marry as a 16 year old (or less). Worldwide problem.

So, apparently, does France. France has the same exceptions to allow 16 year olds to marry adults. And Spain. And Italy. And virtually the entirety of Eastern Europe. Belgium has no minimum age as long as a judge allows it.

If you look at the map of where minors can get married to adults without parental consent, Scotland is more lenient than anywhere in the US. Scotland is actually one of a tiny tiny few countries that allow minors to marry adults without any exceptions required. Adults can just outright marry children in Scotland without issue. Only 7 countries in the world allow that. Most in Africa and the Middle East. And then Scotland.

Y'all Qaeda lives

Its not popular - hence why it's changing. Nuance is lost on the internet, but people really need to start chilling out about making blanket assumptions of huge swaths of people.

Its one of the "automatic assumptions" people have - that it IS illegal. So they wouldn't bother looking it up.

Most Americans don't have the slightest idea of what is/isn't legal. Gotta remember, before the internet, you had to get a physical copy of your state's statutes. These change frequently, and are quite large.

Legalinfo first started in 1994, and it took a much longer time before states have their own websites.

Basically exactly what I expected the map, save for 2

Kudos to Oklahoma. Would not have expected them to have strong anti-child marriage laws

Shame on Illinois. Didn't expect them to be so receptive of child marriage

Sorry to any other outliars I may have missed. Generally seems to be Republicans in favor of child marriage, with Democratic states banning it

By force, of course.

Don’t you remember that classic Mississippi game show, “Who Wants to Marry a Baby? No, seriously, who actually wants to marry a real baby? Like, legally. Meaning all of the legal protections of marriage apply to you and this actual infant. Who wants to? It’s legal. Chris Hansen isn’t here. This isn’t a sting. It’s legal for whatever god forsaken reason. Fuck this stupid fucking backwards ass state.”

Dowry... suuure....

That's some weird 'meet marry fuck'.game you got going there...