Pat was 14 and pregnant when her parents married her off to the 27-year-old bible study counselor who had been raping her for two years.
“Children in these marriages are trapped,” Pat said. “We must outlaw child marriage.”
Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., and thousands of minors marry here every year. Most, like Pat, are girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls are old enough to enter a domestic violence shelter or file for divorce. Many are not old enough to consent to sex.
Together we can end this human rights abuse. With your support — and with Pat as one of our fearless allies — we at Unchained have helped to end child marriage in seven U.S. states over the last four years. Only 43 states to go.
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