A new attempt to end child marriage in New Hampshire
Cassandra Levesque following a hearing where she spoke in favor of a set of bills related to the age of marriage in 2018. Monitor file
Published: 2/15/2021 3:44:21 PM
Dawn Tyree was a child back in 1985 when she married the man who impregnated her.
A couple years later, after years of physical and sexual abuse, she decided to leave her husband at just 17.
As Tyree made her way into the world as a child herself with two children, she felt stuck. Because she was under 18, she couldn’t enroll back in school or rent a hotel room to escape her ex-husband. Tyree was turned away from shelters and social services because of her age.
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and it s daditude . simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. no matter what, there s always good news somewhere and we think good news rules. this one rocks. 19-year-old cassie levesque found a problem in her home state of new hampshire. they made it legal for girls as young as 13 years old and boys as young as 14 to marry adults with permission from their parents in a court. the young cassie set out to change things. as of this week, both chambers of the new hampshire state legislature have voted to change the law. cassie joins me now. cassie, congratulations in the has been a journey. the first bill you put forward set the age at 18, it failed. this week 16 is the new law. how d do you it?
first, i went to my team after my bill was killed and they asked me do you want to keep continuing on? i said, yes droir. i don t want to give up. i want to keep fighting. and next thing i know, we have three more bills heading for the house of representatives and next thing you know they get passed and then we re on to the senate and that gets passed through committee and then on the senate floor. and it was just an amazing experience. how do you feel? very excited and very proud of myself for changing something in my state that has been on the books for 100 years and it s finally changed. cassie, you are the change that you wanted to see. new hampshire is just one state that has these laws. a lot of others do. are you going to take this show on the road? i don t know yet. i am working on getting my