We set out to raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022 so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
As of today, we’ve raised just over $47,000. Can you help us get to our $50,000 goal? Every donation you make now will double in value, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match from a generous donor.
The U.S. has promised to end child marriage by year 2030. But so far only seven U.S. states have kept that promise.
We need your help.
Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022, so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states
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Pat was 14 and pregnant when her parents married her off to the 27-year-old bible study counselor who had been raping her for two years.
“Children in these marriages are trapped,” Pat said. “We must outlaw child marriage.”
Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., and thousands of minors marry here every year. Most, like Pat, are girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls are old enough to enter a domestic violence shelter or file for divorce. Many are not old enough to consent to sex.
Together we can end this human rights abuse. With your support — and with Pat as one of our fearless allies — we at Unchained have helped to end child marriage in seven U.S. states over the last four years. Only 43 states to go.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022, so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Every donation you make now will double in value, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match from a generous donor.
After keeping us waiting for months, the Idaho Supreme Court finally announced its decision yesterday in Carver v. Hornish, the child-marriage case — and its decision was not to make a decision. The court declined to rule on the constitutionality of child marriage.
Also deeply disappointing: The court ruled against the plaintiff, Erin Carver, who was trying to undo a grave injustice. Her ex-husband paid a stranger to marry their then-16-year-old daughter so the girl would be emancipated and he could bypass the courts regarding custody and child support.
This is a reminder of the urgency of our relentless campaign to end child marriage in the United States. Please donate now to help us win this fight in every U.S. state.
Back in February, Idaho Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in the case, which highlighted one of the horrors of child marriage — the ease with which parents can marry off their teen for selfish reasons and leave the teen trapped in a legal nightmare.
Several state and national media outlets covered the case, including The Daily Beast, The Associated Press and the Idaho Post Register.
Learn more about child marriage in the U.S. and our work to end it.
The world is moving backward on girls’ rights — but together we are pushing back.
Let’s gather virtually on International Day of the Girl to insist that girls matter. Please join us tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. ET for a Twitter Space conversation with partners from Equality Now, Freely in Hope and Zonta International about how we are all advancing girls’ rights in the U.S. and globally.
Knots: A Forced Marriage Story, an award-winning, feature-length documentary film that follows three forced marriage survivors from the U.S., including our founder/executive director Fraidy Reiss, is now available to watch via Apple TV and Google Play. Learn more about Knots and how to watch here and watch the trailer below.
Knots, from filmmaker Kate Ryan Brewer, made its global debut in March 2020 and has screened at film festivals around the world. It won “Best Documentary” at the Geelong International Film Festival in Australia and “Best Documentary Feature” at the Manchester Film Festival in the United Kingdom. The film “examines the truth about forced marriage in the U.S. through the complicated experiences of those who have survived it.
Forced marriage is a human rights abuse that happens right here in the U.S., and it impacts people from all backgrounds. In a forced marriage, one or both parties enters without full, free, informed consent. Further, even if both parties enter a marriage with full, free, informed consent, the union can later become a forced marriage if one or both parties is forced to stay in it. Women and girls, including children at least as young as 12, are being forced into marriage here in the U.S.
Read more about forced marriage in the U.S. and our work to end it.
What better way to celebrate our recent Massachusetts victory and build on the momentum it created than with a segment about it on BBC World Service, the world’s largest broadcaster?
Our Fraidy Reiss spoke recently to BBC in an interview that was broadcast around the world — including, for example, on WBUR in Boston.
And remember you can also see us in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s Apple TV+ docuseries, Gutsy. With your continued support, we will continue making noise until we end forced and child marriage in the U.S.!
Yes, that is our founder/executive director Fraidy Reiss who is featured in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new Apple TV+ docuseries, Gutsy, as one of the “world’s boldest and bravest women” who have made an impact in their community and on the world. !! Fraidy appears alongside some of her longtime girl crushes, including Gloria Steinem, Dr. Jane Goodall and Wanda Sykes.
Fraidy makes her appearance in the Gutsy Women Are Rebel Hearts episode of Gutsy, which examines her escape from an abusive forced marriage and her relentless advocacy to end forced and child marriage in the United States.
The docuseries is based on The Book of Gutsy Women (Simon & Schuster), in which Hillary and Chelsea Clinton share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them — including Fraidy.
“Gutsy,” which premiered on Apple TV+ on September 9, follows Hillary and Chelsea Clinton as they “speak with pioneering women artists, activists, community leaders and everyday heroes who show us what it truly means to be gutsy.”
According to the series description, viewers will “Take an unforgettable journey with Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton as they go on adventures with some of the world’s boldest and bravest women – from household names to unsung heroes – who make us laugh and inspire us to be more gutsy.”
Watch our episode of “Gutsy” (and the other seven episodes) now on Apple TV+.
You might have noticed a familiar face if you watched the trailer for Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s upcoming docuseries, “Gutsy.
Our founder/executive director Fraidy Reiss is one of the “world’s boldest and bravest women” featured in “Gutsy,” which will premiere September 9 on Apple TV+. Fraidy is in some good company here, alongside Gloria Steinem, Dr. Jane Goodall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Goldie Hawn and many more.
Haven’t seen the trailer yet? Watch it here (or below) and share on social media.
