Syrett, Nicholas L., <br/><br/>
American child bride :  a history of minors and marriage in the United States / 
Nicholas L. Syrett. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Any maid or woman child: a new nation and its marriage laws --  The child was to be his wife: patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America --  Wholly unfit for the marriage condition: Parton volume Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws --  The great life-long mistake: women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage --  My little girl wife: the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century --  I did and I don't regret it: child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925 --  Marriage reform is still an unplowed field: reformers target child marriage during the 1920s --  Marriage comes early in the mountains: the persistence of child marriage in the rural South --  Are they marrying too young?: the teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years --  There was no stopping her: teen marriage continues in rural America. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469629551 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Age of consent--History.--United States<br/>Child marriage--Social aspects--History.--United States<br/>Child marriage--Law and legislation--History.--United States<br/>Marriage customs and rites--History.--United States<br/>Marriage law--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ535  / .A447 2016