RALEIGH, N.C. At age 13, Judy Wiegand says community leaders gave her “suggested guidance” to marry the 16-year-old father of her unborn child. It was the 1970s. She remembers violence, difficulty raising her child, and her own childhood being taken from her, she testified to a North Carolina House judiciary committee on Tuesday. Now 57, Wiegand hoped those memories would stay in her past. .
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina is one of two states that allows children to get married as young as 14 years old. A group of state lawmakers want to change that this year. If passed, House Bill 41 and Senate Bill 35 would prevent anyone under the age of 18 from marrying. State Sen. Vickie Sawyer, a Mooresville Republican, partnered with the Tahirih Justice Center to find a way to change North .