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Download france24 en7/22/2023 Today we are going down the rabbit hole of the complex issue of child marriages in the United States. Most were girls wed to adult men an average of four years older. A few were as young as 10, though nearly all were age 16 or 17. Nearly 300,000 minors, under age 18, were legally married in the U.S. But what if I told you this issue is also lurking in our own back yard. Across the globe, levels of child marriage are highest in West and Central Africa, where 1 in 3 young women were married before age 18.
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