'Setting the minimum age to obtain a marriage license will help prevent child exploitation,' Governor Wolf said Friday.
Pennsylvania became the third state in the U.S. to ban child marriage as Governor Tom Wolf signed a bill Friday prohibiting issuing of a marriage license to any individual under the age of 18.
"In reality, a married child cannot get a divorce, cannot rent an apartment, cannot buy or rent a car, cannot get health care or check into a hospital, cannot open a bank account, does not have access to an inheritance, cannot get a credit card, cannot even stay at a battered women's shelter," said bill author Senator Sandra Pappas in a floor speech Wednesday."A married child cannot help herself or her children.
"Some children were wed at an age, or with a spousal age difference, that constitutes statutory rape under their state's laws," the group's website said.
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