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We Can End the Suffering: Illinois’ Child Marriage Problem By Nancy Chausow Shafer & Fraidy Reiss Family Law, May 2025 Thousands of Illinois girls are being legally married off to adult men, without any input from the girls, often before the girls are legally old enough to consent to sex. Always before the girls are old enough to enter a domestic violence shelter. Or old enough to file for divorce. But we can end the suffering.

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