Jen, a child marriage survivor, tells her story to the public as she stands on the steps of the State House, calling for an end to child marriages in Massachusetts and across the US in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 22, 2021. - Currently 44 states in the US allow for marriage under the age 18 and the group states that according to a study they did that between 2000 and 2018 some 300,000 children, as young as 10, were legally married in the US. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)