38 states, across the West, South, Midwest, and Northeast.
Girls as young as 10 were among the minors who wedded under legal loopholes
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"At least 207,468 minors married in the US between 2000 and 2015, according to data compiled by Unchained At Last, a group campaigning to abolish
child marriage, and investigative documentary series Frontline.
The true figure is likely to be much higher because 10 states provided no or incomplete statistics. [* * *]
Then, the fact that the children were as young as 13 and the fact that it was mostly girls married to adult men.”