New York state raises age of legal consent to 18, banning child marriage People in their mid-teens can wed through various legal loopholes and exceptions in most states, and about a dozen have no minimum age. NBC News

“Nearly 300,000 minors… were legally married in the U.S. from 2000 to 2018… Several were as young as 10… Most were young girls married to adult men an average of four years older.” More from Dartunorro Clark on NBC News on the #VAWnet news blogs here (where we post the latest in anti-violence news! 📰).