Indiana Capital Chronicle
INDIANAPOLIS – After authorities rescued 16 children last month who had been confined to a single room in a home in rural Ohio, attention turned to their mother, who had been 15 and pregnant when she married their father.
The child endangerment case has recharged a national conversation around child marriage, which is defined by the United Nations as any marriage involving someone under age 18. Though more states have restricted or banned the practice in the last decade, many still allow some form of it – Indiana included…