Delaware becomes the first American state to ban child marriages

While it is interesting to discover that things we deem obscene are permitted, and sometimes occur, and that the occurrence of something as severe as a ten year old marrying their rapist is non-zero, it is very dishonest to discuss these things without statistics.

These articles often start with specifics of the most obscene cases, then should they ever get to frequencies, conflate many not-as-severe or irrelevant cases, to bolster the appearance of severity. E.g. a statistic might include marriages where either party is under 18 years.

As an immigrant from a south asian country, I was super surprised to learn that child marriages are legal in US. And children are often married to their rapists[1].

1.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/child-marr...