BOSTON - Wearing bridal gowns and chains around their hands, a group of activists chanted and marched through the Statehouse on Wednesday demanding that lawmakers support a bill that would ban child marriage in Massachusetts.Advocates say almost 1,200 individuals as young as 14 were married in Massachusetts between 2000 and 2016, a significant majority of them to older men, because of how the existing state law is phrased. Bills filed by Rep. Kay Khan and Sen. Harriette Chandler would [...]
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