Opinion: California enables abusive child marriage, but Bay Area lawmaker blocks reform effort
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Alyssa Milano and Fraidy Reiss advocate for ending child marriage, a form of human rights abuse, in California through legislation setting the minimum marriage age to 18.
California's current laws allowing marriage of minors facilitate trafficking, as federal law defers to states, enabling child marriages without a minimum age requirement.
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