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Nicole Miller
Coverage of Nicole Miller in the Nexus archive.
- Child marriage with parental consent is still legal in Wisconsin. Republicans have blocked Democratic efforts to change that.
Child marriage with parental consent remains legal in Wisconsin, where Republican legislative leaders have blocked Democratic proposals to ban the practice. Oklahoma recently became the 17th state to prohibit child marriage, but Wisconsin allows 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental permission, with 297 minors married between 2015 and 2024.