Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the Child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past.
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Focusing on young women and girls--the most common underage spouses--Syrett tracks the marital History of American Minors from the colonial period to the present, chronicling the debates and moral panics related to these unions.
Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking History of youthful Marriage in America.
But Nicholas L.
Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the Child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past