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forced arranged marriages . New York had allowed fourteen year olds to get married under certain circumstances until 2017 when the age of consent was raised to age seventeen.
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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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