UN-ARRANGE A MARRIAGE U.S.A.'s Child Marriage Problem. Our new study found nearly 300,000 children, a few as young as 10, were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018. Some 60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime. Read the study. NEWS | UNCHAINED AT LAST We’ve been busy here at Unchained At Last: So far this year, 12 U.S. states have introduced legislation to end all marriage before 18, without. Read More ». 2/16/2021 Will you join us for a virtual movie/UN parallel event? Posted February 16, 2021. FORCED AND CHILD MARRIAGE: SURVIVOR STORIES Forced and Child Marriage: Survivor Stories. Think forced and child marriage don’t happen in the United States? Here are the stories of survivors who have experienced forced marriage (where one or both parties do not give full, free, consent) or child marriage (where one or both parties is under 18, often a form of forced marriage) in the
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ABOUT CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE U.S. About Child Marriage in the U.S. Unchained started and now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in the U.S. Child marriage, or marriage before 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states as of 2017. Thanks to Unchained’s relentless advocacy, that is changing. Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this
CONTACT | UNCHAINED AT LAST Here are three ways you can contact Unchained: Submit the Contact Form below. Send mail to: Unchained At Last, 208 Lenox Avenue #189, Westfield, NJ 07090. Call (908) 481-HOPE. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Make Your Voice Heard. Join the national movement to end child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level. Submit these pre-written emails to urge legislators to take action. Connecticut via Unchained At Last *Available only to Connecticut residents. Illinois via Unchained At Last *Available only to Illinois residents. FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Fraidy ReissFounder/Executive Director. Fraidy was 19 when her family arranged for her to marry a man who turned out to be violent. But with no education or job, in an insular religious community where only men have the right to grant a divorce, she felt trapped. Still trapped at age 27, Fraidy defied her husband and community to become the UNCHAINED AT LAST
An estimated 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018. That number includes 232,474 based on actual data plus 64,559 based on estimates. Child marriage occurred most frequently among 16- and 17-year olds. Some 96% of the children wed were age 16 WANTED: ADVOCACY INTERNS Unchained is the only nonprofit in the U.S. dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the U.S., through direct services and advocacy. The organization recently started, and now leads, a growing national movement to pass legislation in every U.S. state and at the federal level to eliminate child marriage. A day at Unchained is rarely dull. LANI SANTO | UNCHAINED AT LAST Lani Santo. Lani is the Executive Director of Footsteps, a New York-based nonprofit that provides educational, vocational and social support to those seeking to enter or explore the world beyond the insular religious communities in which they were raised. Lani has dedicated her career to social justice, community building, and supporting
UN-ARRANGE A MARRIAGE U.S.A.'s Child Marriage Problem. Our new study found nearly 300,000 children, a few as young as 10, were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018. Some 60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime. Read the study. NEWS | UNCHAINED AT LAST We’ve been busy here at Unchained At Last: So far this year, 12 U.S. states have introduced legislation to end all marriage before 18, without. Read More ». 2/16/2021 Will you join us for a virtual movie/UN parallel event? Posted February 16, 2021. FORCED AND CHILD MARRIAGE: SURVIVOR STORIES Forced and Child Marriage: Survivor Stories. Think forced and child marriage don’t happen in the United States? Here are the stories of survivors who have experienced forced marriage (where one or both parties do not give full, free, consent) or child marriage (where one or both parties is under 18, often a form of forced marriage) in the U.S.
ABOUT CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE U.S. About Child Marriage in the U.S. Unchained started and now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in the U.S. Child marriage, or marriage before 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states as of 2017. Thanks to Unchained’s relentless advocacy, that is changing. Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this
CONTACT | UNCHAINED AT LAST Here are three ways you can contact Unchained: Submit the Contact Form below. Send mail to: Unchained At Last, 208 Lenox Avenue #189, Westfield, NJ 07090. Call (908) 481-HOPE. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Make Your Voice Heard. Join the national movement to end child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level. Submit these pre-written emails to urge legislators to take action. Connecticut via Unchained At Last *Available only to Connecticut residents. Illinois via Unchained At Last *Available only to Illinois residents. FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Fraidy ReissFounder/Executive Director. Fraidy was 19 when her family arranged for her to marry a man who turned out to be violent. But with no education or job, in an insular religious community where only men have the right to grant a divorce, she felt trapped. Still trapped at age 27, Fraidy defied her husband and community to become the UNCHAINED AT LAST
An estimated 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018. That number includes 232,474 based on actual data plus 64,559 based on estimates. Child marriage occurred most frequently among 16- and 17-year olds. Some 96% of the children wed were age 16 WANTED: ADVOCACY INTERNS Unchained is the only nonprofit in the U.S. dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the U.S., through direct services and advocacy. The organization recently started, and now leads, a growing national movement to pass legislation in every U.S. state and at the federal level to eliminate child marriage. A day at Unchained is rarely dull. LANI SANTO | UNCHAINED AT LAST Lani Santo. Lani is the Executive Director of Footsteps, a New York-based nonprofit that provides educational, vocational and social support to those seeking to enter or explore the world beyond the insular religious communities in which they were raised. Lani has dedicated her career to social justice, community building, and supporting
NEWS | UNCHAINED AT LAST We’ve been busy here at Unchained At Last: So far this year, 12 U.S. states have introduced legislation to end all marriage before 18, without. Read More ». 2/16/2021 Will you join us for a virtual movie/UN parallel event? Posted February 16, 2021. ABOUT | UNCHAINED AT LAST About. Unchained At Last is the only organization dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and advocacy. Unchained At a Glance. History of Unchained. Founder/Executive Director. Board of Directors. Board of Advisers. UPCOMING EVENTS
Upcoming Events. You can help end forced and child marriage in the U.S. – and have some fun while you’re at it. (Make sure to join the Unchained email list so you’re the first to know about upcoming events.). June 17, 2021 | United States’ Child Marriage Problem The United States has a child marriage problem, our new study proves. We’ll mark our 10th anniversary by talking with CHILD MARRIAGE
Child Marriage – Devastating Consequences. The U.S. State Department has called marriage before 18 a “human rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood.” This is true globally, including in the U.S. Consider the following: 6/7/2021 RHODE ISLAND JUST ENDED CHILD MARRIAGE helping women leave arranged/forced marriages. We’re now five down, 45 to go in our national movement to end child marriage in every U.S. state. We just stood beside Gov. Daniel McKee and the bill’s sponsors — Rep. Julie Casimiro and Sen. John Burke — as the governor signed H5387/S398 and made Rhode Island the fifth U.S. state to ban all marriage before 18, without exceptions. !! 5/4/2021 JOIN US AND CHELSEA CLINTON ON JUNE 17 (SAVE THE Mark your calendar: You are invited to join us June 17 for a virtual discussion — moderated by Chelsea Clinton — of our new study of the extent of child marriage in the U.S. We found that nearly 300,000 children, a few as young as 10, married recently in the U.S. — mostly girls wed to adult men. Some 60,000 marriages occurred at an age or
5/19/2021 RI MOVED EVEN CLOSER TO ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE 6/2/2021 NY legislature just voted to end child marriage! 5/19/2021 RI moved even closer to ending child marriage! 5/18/2021 Join us & Chelsea Clinton 6/17: Register now! 5/18/2021 JOIN US & CHELSEA CLINTON 6/17: REGISTER NOW The United States has a child marriage problem, our new study proves. Join us and Chelsea Clinton on June 17 for a virtual discussion of the groundbreaking study, which found nearly 300,000 children were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018 — mostly girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls were old enough to file for divorce or enter a domestic violence shelter. 5/11/2021 NY & RI JUST MOVED CLOSER TO ENDING CHILD We have a double dose of good news! The New York senate just approved S3086, sponsored by Sen. Julia Salazar, to end child marriage.And, at nearly the same time, the Rhode Island senate UNANIMOUSLY approved S398, sponsored by Sen. John Burke, to do the same. Both bills still need approval in the lower house — but New York and Rhode Island are now one step closer to 6/2/2021 NY LEGISLATURE JUST VOTED TO END CHILD MARRIAGE 6/2/2021 NY legislature just voted to end child marriage! 5/25/2021 Let’s talk child marriage with Chelsea Clinton & Blair Imani; 5/19/2021 RI moved even closer to ending child marriage! *
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