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The Assemblymember discussed her legislative priorities for 2024. Following that, Livermore Indivisible shared the group's priorities and those of the California Indivisible StateStrong Coalition (of which Livermore Indivisible is a member).
The US State Department calls marriage before 18 a "human rights abuse", however child marriage occurs in the US and surprisingly, CA is no exception. We first learned about this from Senator Wahab (October 2023) as she described one of the bills she authored last year, SB404, which would have banned child marriages in California. While that bill died in committee, the issue is taken up again this year, this time in AB2924, , a bill sponsored by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris from Orange County.
California’s marriage age is 18, but the law includes alarming loopholes: A parent may “consent” to marry off a child of any age with judicial approval. Unfortunately, parental “consent” is often coercion as parents typically play an important role in facilitating a forced marriage. The loophole allows a marriage license to be a “get out of jail free” card for a would-be child rapist. Sex with a child under age 18 is a sex crime unless the perpetrator first marries the child.
If you want to end child marriage in CA, contact your state representatives through this link.
For more information on child marriage in CA see the Los Angeles Times and Cal Matters articles and a report from ChildUSA , a sponsor of Senator Wahab's 2022 bill,.
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