🚨315,000 U.S. children were married between 2000 and 2021.

66,415 cases involved ages or spousal age gaps that would qualify as a sex crime.

Source: Equality Now & Unchained At Last, “Legal Gaps and Enduring Harm” (Oct. 8, 2025).
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Unacceptable and Disgusting.

In a country where about 90% of children attend public schools, no student’s education should be cut short by a marriage license.

Child marriage is still legal in over 34 states — and it often forces kids, especially girls, to leave school, trapping them in a cycle that limits their safety, education, and future.

SEA is honored to join the National Coalition to End Child Marriage with Unchained At Last to set 18 as the minimum age — NO exceptions.

Together we’re working to keep kids in class and protect their rights.

✊ Join us in demanding laws that keep children in the classroom — and out of marriage.

Read the announcement ➜ https://seculareducationassociation.org/2025/10/08/secular-education-association-joins-national-coalition-to-end-child-marriage/

Learn more ➜ https://www.unchainedatlast.org/

Take action: Share this post from the public page, contact your state reps, and ask them to support 18—no exceptions.

#EndChildMarriage #ProtectPublicEducation #SurvivorInformed #StudentsFirstn

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