https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2021/8/north-carolina-lawmakers-vote-to-raise-minimum-age-for-marriage-from-14-16.html


North Carolina lawmakers vote to raise minimum age for marriage from 14 -16



North Carolina lawmakers unanimously voted to raise the legal age of marriage in the state from 14 to 16, taking a step to further restrict child marriage but stopping short of outlawing it.


The legislation, passed by the state Senate on Tuesday afternoon, August 17, and by the House last week, bars children under the age of 16 from getting married and requires an age gap of four years or smaller between a 16- or 17-year-old and the person they marry.


The bill will now be sent to North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to sign.



Current law has no minimum age gap between the spouses, and children as young as 14 can get married if they become pregnant and if a judge allows it. Parental permission has otherwise been required beginning at 16.



House and Senate legislators joined women’s rights advocates and child protection groups this year to raise the marriage age. They had tried to raise it to 18 with no exceptions, but some lawmakers remained comfortable keeping certain marriages involving a child or two youths as an option.


“While the legislation falls short of raising the age of marriage to 18, the governor supports this step toward ending child marriage in North Carolina and more protections for children,” Cooper spokesperson Mary Scott Winstead wrote in an email.


With adjoining states raising the minimum to 16 or 17 in recent years, North Carolina has become a destination locale for out-of-state couples in which one marriage applicant is a minor, officials and bill advocates said.


Alaska is the only other state whose law expressly allows marriages as young as 14, according to the group Unchained at Last. Thirteen states currently allow children under 16 to wed, nine of which have no minimum age, relying instead on case law or a judge’s rulings.

@ COCOCANDY, IN YOUR AMERICA...

JUST GOING ABOUT MY USUAL BUSINESS ON THE OTHER NIGERIA BLOG AND THIS WAS RIGHT UP THERE THIS MORNING.


HAD TO SHARE ON NAIRALAND.

Hmmmm,even in America,and these people are quick to condemn child brides all the over the world.
The log in their eyes is a big timber plank and they are trying to remove the small wood in the eyes of other countries of the world.
Anyways,I believe allowing girls to marry below the age of 18 is criminal and irresponsible.
If a child can't vote before she's 18 years,I wonder why that child should be allowed to get married and give birth.
God bless Nigeria

is marriage @16 not even a baby marriage?

Ogamysamo:
is marriage @16 not even a baby marriage?

TRUTH IS, THIS PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND SPOILING THE WHOLE WORLD VIA MEDIA.


THIS IS Y IT IS GOOD FOR A PERSON TO HAVE A GOOD CONSCIENCE AND GOOD SENSE OF JUDGEMENT.


I BASICALLY LOOK BACK AT MY TRACKS TO KNOW WHAT IS WHAT.

all i see is another legal approval and full support of child marriage, nothing is changing anything for something in this-thing

Whenever they mention marriage age, Nigerians tends to sound hypocritical.

Giving your 16yr old daughter for marriage,isnt it better than hiding to Bleep around by same men they don't want to marry them. The reason for child abuse is this law that makes it criminal to date a 16yr old. Remove that law allow men come out to propose to them than luring them and fucking them secretly.

This isn't Stone age,the way women are developing fast this days ,you will hardly recognize a 12yr old girl from adults because they are already fully developed

Aboki dem no go gree

Aboki wey dey engage girl @10 years