A proposal to change the minimum legal marriage age from 16 to 18 with no exceptions won first-round approval. It needs one more procedural vote before consideration by the House.
Forty-two states currently allow child marriage and seven states have no statutory minimum age, including Michigan. Proponents and child marriage survivors t
Forty-two states currently allow child marriage and seven states have no statutory minimum age, including Michigan. Proponents and child marriage survivors testified in a state legislative …