Yep. It’s mostly bible belt states, and typically requires parental consent. So usually (as best I understand it) parents marrying off very young daughters to much older men who happen to go to the same church as them. A couple of states have tried to end it, only for it to get blocked by their legislature or vetoed by the governor.
Outside the Bible belt too; the fundamentalist Mormons in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico also have child brides, but I think they’re more reprehensible since they also expel their teenage boys by abandoning them in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas to a life of destitution due to being uneducated and sheltered their entire lives in cult like conditions.
They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them; with Colorado City being the most egregious example imo.
Although that’s with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.
Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.
Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.
Wait what? I’m Canadian, I didn’t know this.
Yeah, we got child labor too. Half a million children pick almost a quarter of the food currently produced in the United States.
Uhh what percentage of those are migrants and what percentage of those are undocumented? Impossible to answer, but the truth would be revealing
Actually I think that’s just US citizens? Agricultural labor is not subject to child labor laws.
So who even knows how many undocumented children are doing child labor. I know meat packing plants keep getting busted for it.
Rofl. Lmao even. Death to Amerikkka
Every day Iearn something new
About how demonic this place is
https://www.ncfh.org/child-labor-fact-sheet.html
AAAAA
Purdue Farms and JBS, two of the largest meatpackers in the US, were just ordered to pay fines for child labor violations yesterday.
How long until we get libs saying we should regulate child labor instead of prohibiting it lmao
when prices go up on the treatlers
Yep. It’s mostly bible belt states, and typically requires parental consent. So usually (as best I understand it) parents marrying off very young daughters to much older men who happen to go to the same church as them. A couple of states have tried to end it, only for it to get blocked by their legislature or vetoed by the governor.
Outside the Bible belt too; the fundamentalist Mormons in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico also have child brides, but I think they’re more reprehensible since they also expel their teenage boys by abandoning them in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas to a life of destitution due to being uneducated and sheltered their entire lives in cult like conditions.
They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them; with Colorado City being the most egregious example imo.
Damn
I genuinely believe that Mormonism should be destroyed
Wish that was us
why?
Because selective enforcement of the law alone is massively powerful.
Its actually most of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
Although that’s with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.
Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.
Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.