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Red Table Talk

Children Forced Into Marriage: A National Disgrace"

Red Table Talk

iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In 48 states it's still legal for young girls to be forced into marriage. Two brave women who were child brides share the harrowing details of how they were forced to marry older men and why the laws desperately need to change

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0:41.0

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0:48.0

This particular show is about child marriages that we've been advocating to stop in third world countries.

0:55.0

This is actually happening here in the United States.

0:57.0

It's so crazy to me.

0:58.0

So when the producers told me about this story, I was like, are you kidding me again that there's this issue going on here in the United States that we don't know about?

1:09.0

Right. There's only two states, New Jersey and Delaware, where you have to be 18 years old in order to get married.

1:15.0

Only two states in the United States.

1:17.0

That's it.

1:18.0

That's it.

1:19.0

Wow.

1:20.0

You can be seven years old.

1:22.0

There's a law in law because it's a religious thing?

1:27.0

No.

1:28.0

It doesn't have to be a religious thing.

1:30.0

All you have to do is have the consent of either a judge, in some states, consent of a parent, in some states.

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