Despite the advancement of human and women’s rights over the past few centuries, children, specifically girls under the age of eighteen, are still pressured into marriages. As of 2018, there is no federal law that bans marriage involving at least one child, as individual states set their own age requirements. Until recently, Kentucky has had no minimum age for marriage up until January 2, 2018, when Republican Senator Julie Raque Adams from Louisville, Kentucky, with the co-sponsorship of Republican Senators Ralph Alvarado and Will Schroder and Democratic Senators Denise Harper Angel and Morgan McGarvey, sponsored Senate Bill 48 (SB 48), also known as the “Child Bride Bill”, to raise the legal age of marriage in the state. The Child Bride Bill…