A major victory in our push to educate the world about child marriage in the U.S.: Our groundbreaking research was just published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, in a supplement alongside other research about child marriage globally.
Our study, the first of its kind, found that nearly 300,000 children were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018, mostly girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls were old enough to file for divorce. At least 60,000 children were married at an age or with a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime.
You can do something about this! Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2021 so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Check out the brief video clip below, in which global health expert Dr. Yvette Efevbera — who made our research possible — explains why she is passionate about ending child marriage.
