TY - BOOK AU - Syrett,Nicholas L. TI - American child bride: a history of minors and marriage in the United States SN - 9781469629551 AV - HQ535 .A447 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Age of consent KW - United States KW - History KW - Child marriage KW - Social aspects KW - Law and legislation KW - Marriage customs and rites KW - Marriage law KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1222244&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -