I randomly stumbled across the linked Wikipedia article. At the bottom of the article, there is a list for each state.

Quite a few states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming) have an age of consent, which is higher than the minimum marriage age.

How does that work out? Does that mean if these legally married people have intercourse it’s statutory rape?

(Weird side fact: California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Washington have a minimum marriage age of 0, which is just wrong.)

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#Marriage_age

This article paints a much more disturbing picture of this practice:

According to Unchained At Last, the youngest girls to marry in 2000–2010 were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25, and 31 in 2001. The youngest boy to marry was an 11-year-old, also in Tennessee, who married a 27-year-old woman in 2006.

I am getting physically sick when thinking of this.