Ilhan Omar actually said...

I have found it be quite alarming in the number of countries that have policies on the books that have increased the age, the legal age for a young woman to get married, but still have this problem persist because it is such a societal norm.

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Omar highlights the discrepancy between legal marriage age and societal norms.

02/04/2020

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