Annapolis, MD – Since 2000, more than 3,000 children in Maryland have been married, overwhelmingly teenage girls. Almost 150 of those children were 15, and state records showed six children were younger than 15.
Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary said that all needs to stop: The Howard County Democrat is pushing to make the legal age of marriage in Maryland a bright-line 18, with no exceptions for anyone younger.