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age of consent was raised to age seventeen. Under Nalia's law the new age of consent for marriage is again modified to eighteen years of age thus protecting children from forced arranged marriages for example. S3086/A3891
North Carolina is currently debating their teenage marriage laws as they have become a destination state for underage marriage licenses. North Carolina restricts these young marriages to a four year age difference between the groom and bride .
A watch group in Massachusetts released information that 57 teenagers under the age of sixteen were married in that state. There is a movement by Human Rights watch to raise that state's law of consent and eliminate exceptions such as parent's permission,
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