California is clinging to child marriage, despite the world’s promise to end this archaic harmful practice by year 2030 — as our founder/executive director Fraidy Reiss points out in this op-ed article just published in the Sacramento Bee.
California law allows parents to marry off children of any age. More than 8,000 children in California are married each year, giving thousands of get-out-of-jail-free cards to child rapists — since sex with a child under age 18 is a crime in California, unless the perpetrator first marries the child.
