{"id":1254,"date":"2018-06-04T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/america-has-a-massive-child-marriage-problem\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:19:01","slug":"america-has-a-massive-child-marriage-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/2018\/06\/04\/america-has-a-massive-child-marriage-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"America has a massive child marriage problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4pBfWYbJYY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In the US nearly every state allows child marriage. In some there are even loopholes that allow child rapists to avoid prosecution by marrying the person they raped. In others parents can, in effect, force their children to get married.<\/p>\n<p>(Click to subscribe for more Channel 4 News videos &#8211; http:\/\/bit.ly\/c4news_sub) <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a global issue &#8211; one in five girls around the world is married as a child &#8211; but you might be surprised to know that nearly 250,000 children were married in the US in the first ten years of this century. <\/p>\n<p>In this So What we look at child marriage in the US, why it\u2019s legal and what campaigners are doing to tackle what they see as child abuse. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Watch more of our explainer series here &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230;<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M4pBfWYbJYY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US nearly every state allows child marriage. 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(Click to subscribe for more Channel 4 News videos &#8211; http:\/\/bit.ly\/c4news_sub) It\u2019s a global issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>America has a massive child marriage problem &#187; NADA FOUNDATION<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/2018\/06\/04\/america-has-a-massive-child-marriage-problem.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"America has a massive child marriage problem &#187; NADA FOUNDATION\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the US nearly every state allows child marriage. 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