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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdaho Republicans Kill Bill to End Child Marriages
March 1, 2019 at 8:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Idaho has the highest rate of child marriage in the U.S., the Idaho Statesman reports.
This statistic isnt likely to change soon because the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to kill a bill that would end child marriage in Idaho.
From 2000 to 2010, 4,080 children in Idaho were married, according to data compiled from 38 states by Unchained at Last, a national advocacy group working to end forced and child marriages in America. The youngest minor wed in Idaho was 13.
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Idaho Republicans Kill Bill to End Child Marriages (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
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Takket
(21,560 posts)1. WTF?????????!
avebury
(10,952 posts)2. Headlines should be: Idaho Republicans favor exploitation of children.
How many of these child marriages are by registered Republicans?
dubyadiprecession
(5,706 posts)3. If Idaho wants to stay in the 19th century...
Theyre going to stay in the 19th century.
raging moderate
(4,297 posts)4. the nineteenth century?
This is more like the sixteenth century!
CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)5. The dominant religion in ID is LDS.
Bettie
(16,089 posts)6. And some of the fringier groups who identify as LDS
Love to have older men marry little girls.