When Children Have Children
5 min readApr 24, 2022
Judy, the 21-year-old front desk receptionist, was pregnant and married. Not terribly unusual. What stunned us was learning Judy got married when she was 16 — and kept it a secret from everyone outside her family until she graduated from high school.
Legal age of marriage varies from state to state. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law to “end child marriage” in 2017, raising the age of consent to marry from…
