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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With a concern that the state is becoming a regional destination for child marriages, North Carolina Republican Senator Vickie Sawyer is preparing bills that would prevent anyone under the age of 18 from marrying there. Currently, the state ties with Alaska in allowing those as young as 14 to wed. In North Carolina, 14- and 15-year-old girls must be pregnant or have a child, and have court approval, . Sixteen- and 17-year-olds can marry with parental consent, and those 18 and older are free to marry as they choose. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or. In the U.S., only four states — Minnesota, , Delaware and New Jersey — . Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300 A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Y’all, in NC you can’t buy smokes, booze, rent an apartment or buy a car but you can be forced into marriage at age 14 If your parent sold you because you were Impregnated￼￼ by your sexual abuser.. — Vickie Sawyer (@SenatorSawyer) Registers of Deeds throughout the state have found that . They’re even coming from neighbouring states that have updated their marriage laws. And there are no restrictions in North Carolina as there are in other states for the age difference between the couple, which one county’s registrar of deeds said is essentially a loophole for statutory rape: “What we’ve come to realize is that there are a lot of people who feel like they got forced to marry their rapist.” In North Carolina, 50 counties list 4,000 minors as married, a news release says, but could be closer to 10,000 if all 100 counties reported. Of those married children, 93 per cent married an adult, with 200 being married to someone older by 10 years or more, Tahirih reports. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Because no government data existed on the subject, Raleigh resident Lyric Thompson, senior director of policy and advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women and a professor on women’s rights at the George Washington University, alongside Casey Carter Swegman, who serves as the Forced Marriage Initiative Project Manager at Tahirih, researched all marriage licence applications back to 2000 in 50 counties across the state and reported in the newspaper that “. “The most egregious age difference between spouses was 40 years, between a 57- and 17-year-old,” they wrote. “We found that at least 3,949 marriage licence applications involving 4,218 minors occurred in the 50 counties reporting between 2000-2019. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “The current marriage-age law sanctions sex that would otherwise be considered statutory rape,” they wrote. “North Carolina law defines sexual intercourse between two parties with an age difference of four years or greater when one is 15 or younger as a felony. But this was the case in 57 per cent of the marriage licences we reviewed.” Tahirih blames child marriages for causing some of the state’s poverty, domestic violence and sexual abuse. Most officials are put off by the legality of it. When the county registrar quoted above signs off underage girls to marry much older men, even after trying to make them see sense, he says it leaves him sick. He remembers the foreboding he felt when a 17-year-old girl showed up with her 49-year-old boyfriend. So . He went through a list of questions, as he does for many young girls. “Have you ever worked a job before?” The girl shook her head. She had not. “Have you graduated from high school?” She had not. “Do you see a power dynamic taking place?” She had not, and neither did her mother. In many cases, the experts and officials find that the mother was a child bride herself, as were generations of women going back years. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about . By continuing to use our site, you agree to our and . OK

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With a concern that the state is becoming a regional destination for child marriages, North Carolina Republican Senator Vickie Sawyer is preparing bills that would prevent anyone under the age of 18 from marrying there. Currently, the state ties with Alaska in allowing those as young as 14 to wed. In North Carolina, 14- and 15-year-old girls must be pregnant or have a child, and have court approval, . Sixteen- and 17-year-olds can marry with parental consent, and those 18 and older are free to marry as they choose. We...

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