State Representative Kay Khan, sponsor of a bill to end child marriages, speaks to the public as she stands with advocates and child marriage survivors on the steps of the State House 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)