Several states do not have any minimum age for which children cannot marry. states is 18, according to Unchained, but 47 states allow people under 18 to get married through exceptions like parental consent or judicial approval.
Some children were wed at an age, or with a spousal age difference, that constitutes statutory rape under their state's laws." "Some 77% of the children wed were minor girls married to adult men, often with significant age differences. "These were not 'Romeo and Juliet' situations," Unchained says on its website.