California is currently one of only three states in the country — alongside Mississippi and New Mexico — that sets no minimum age at all for marriage, allowing a child of any age to be legally wed as long as a parent or guardian signs off. A bill designed to close that loophole for good just cleared a major hurdle in Sacramento, passing the state Senate on a unanimous 38-0 vote this past Wednesday.

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[–] 45 points 1 month ago (10 children)

2026, California bans child marriage.

Glad they got that squared away.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    It took until 2006 for Washington to ban beastiality and only after a Boeing engineer let a horse diddle him and he died from a burst colon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Raping your spouse wasn't a crime anywhere in the country until 1975, and wasn't illegal nationwide until 1993.

    It was also much harder to get a divorce. So men could rape their wives without legal repercussions and the wives couldn't get a divorce.

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