Republicans Love Child Marriage
A list of news articles where Republicans defend and endorse child marriage.
- Republicans Make a Case for Child Marriage (Newsweek, 2023)
- Republican Against Child Marriage Ban Calls Teens ‘Ripe, Fertile’ (Newsweek, 2024)
- Were all 36 votes against a recently passed bill that bans child marriage cast by Republican lawmakers? (Oklahoma Watch, 2026)
- Why Are Some Republican Lawmakers Hellbent on Preserving Child Marriage? (Rolling Stone, 2024)
- Child marriage with parental consent is still legal in Wisconsin. Republicans have blocked Democratic efforts to change that. (Wisconsin Watch, 2026)
- 36 Republicans vote against law banning child marriages. Some cited the Bible as justification. (LGBTQ Nation, 2026)
- Missouri Senate once again overwhelmingly approves child marriage ban (Missouri Independent, 2025)
- Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans (Kansas City Star, 2024)
- ‘Shameful.’ Missouri lawmakers fail to ban all child marriages after resistance (Kansas City Star, 2024)
- South Dakota's minimum age to marry will stay at 16 (The Dakota Scout, 2024)
- Legislative panel shoots down South Dakota bill to raise the age for marriage to 18 (Associated Press, 2024)
- VIDEO: NH Republican State Rep Defends Child Marriage (Granite Post, 2024)
- Missouri lawmaker suggests 12-year-olds should be able to get married (Washington Post, 2023)
- Mike Moon, GOP Missouri Lawmaker, Defends Child's Right to Get Married (Business Insider, 2023)
- Wyoming Limiting Child Marriage Sparks Republican Outrage (Newsweek, 2023)
- West Virginia Republicans Block Child Marriage Ban (Rolling Stone, 2023)
- Why is child marriage still legal in 80% of U.S. states? (Connecticut Mirror, 2023)
- GOP’s Idea of Youth: Little League? Proms? Try Working in a Slaughterhouse and Marrying at 10. (The New Republic, 2023)
- Tennessee Bill Proposes Eliminating Marriage Age Requirements (Newsweek, 2022)
- End child marriage in the U.S.? You might be surprised who's opposed. (NBC News/Euronews, 2019)
- This bill would have ended child marriage for those under age in Idaho. The House voted it down (Idaho Statesman, 2019)
- Republicans in Louisiana reject measure setting minimum age for marriage (The Independent, 2019)
- Louisiana Lawmakers Reject Bill to Set a Minimum Age for Marriage (Time, 2019)
- Tennessee GOP kill bill to ban child marriage (The Hill, 2018)