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Virginia, Maryland weigh raising marriage age to 18 to combat coercion, abuse

Virginia, Maryland weigh raising marriage age to 18 to combat coercion, abuse

They can’t legally vote, drink alcohol or smoke a cigarette, but thousands of underage Virginians, most of them girls, have been pressured into marriage over the last decade. Now there’s a move afoot in the General Assembly to try to head off the disturbing trend by raising the age of consent for marriage to at least…

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