More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years

More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed.The minimum age for marriage across most of the US is 18, but every state has exemptions – such as parental consent or pregnancy – which allow younger children to tie the knot.In May, the high-profile Republican governor for New Jersey declined to sign into law a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception.