ARIZONA INFORMATION PLEASE >> Childhood Marriage

In Arizona, the minimum age to marry with parental consent is 16, and a court must approve marriages of those under 16, with parental consent or if the minor is pregnant, or by order of a children's or family division of district court

Child Marriage

~8,957

in

Youngest marriage age allowed by law

# of children married  2000-2024

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Legislative Status

In 2025, Rep. Lorena Austin introduced HB2528 to end all marriage before 18, without exception. The bill is pending in the house.

In 2018, lawmakers passed HB2006, which set the marriage age at 16 but did not protect 16- and 17-year-olds. 

74%+

% of children married

2000-2024 who were girls wed to adult men

age of youngest child married 2000-2024

# of marriages at age/ spousal age difference that should have constituted

a sex crime

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3,945+

Arizona

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Arizona Revised Statutes § 25-102.

Fraidy Reiss, Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications, Journal of Adolescent Health (December 2021), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00341-4/fulltext. Data for 2019 and later based on Unchained’s analysis of marriage-certificate data from the Marciopa County Clerk of Superior Court and Pima County Office of the Clerk of Court (combined, represent about 2/3 of state population. Data for the rest of the state are estimated as "no data received.")

Based on Unchained's analysis of marriage-certificate data retrieved from the Marciopa County Clerk of Superior Court and Pima County Office of the Clerk of Court (combined, represent about 2/3 of state population. Data for the rest of the state are estimated as "no data received.")

Between 3,945 and 4,328 marriages in Maricopa and Pima counties during 2000-2024 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been a sex crime. See: Alissa Koski, et. al., Child Marriage or Statutory Rape?, Journal of Adolescent Health (March 2022), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00552-8/fulltext. 

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More information on child marriage in Arizona is available upon request.

Arizona Revised Statutes § 25-102.Fraidy Reiss, Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications, Journal of Adolescent Health (December 2021), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00341-4/fulltext. Data for 2019 and later based on Unchained’s analysis of marriage-certificate data from the Marciopa County Clerk of Superior Court and Pima County Office of the Clerk of Court (combined, represent about 2/3 of state population. Data for the rest of the state are estimated as "no data received.")

Based on Unchained's analysis of marriage-certificate data retrieved from the Marciopa County Clerk of Superior Court and Pima County Office of the Clerk of Court (combined, represent about 2/3 of state population. Data for the rest of the state are estimated as "no data received.")

Between 3,945 and 4,328 marriages in Maricopa and Pima counties during 2000-2024 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been a sex crime. See: Alissa Koski, et. al., Child Marriage or Statutory Rape?, Journal of Adolescent Health (March 2022), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00552-8/fulltext. 

 

Unchained at a Glance

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Mission

Unchained At Last is a survivor-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and systems change.

Unchained provides crucial legal and social services, always for free, to help people in the U.S. to escape arranged/forced marriages and rebuild their lives. At the same time, Unchained pushes for social, policy and legal change; the organization started and now leads a growing national movement to eliminate child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level.