New Jersey just became the first state to completely ban child marriage
Publication Date
15 March 2017
Publication Author
Alison Thoet
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ICRW Director of Policy and Advocacy Lyric Thompson spoke to PBS News Hour about how child marriage is not only prevalent in the developing world, but also occurs in the United States.
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