童婚（二）

世界强国—米国，居然也存在童婚现象。这个是我们万万没有想到的吧，让我们一起来看看经济学关于美国童婚是怎样写的。
America has always allowed such child marriages, which happens mostly in conservative religious communities and rural areas. Yet, as in the rest of the world, the practice has become much less common. Whereas 23,500 minors got married in 2000, by 2010 the number had dropped to a little over 9,000, reflecting changing social norms, higher rates of school attendance for girls and a decline in marriage more generally. Virginia, Texas and New York have introduced laws in the past couple of years that restrict marriage to legal adults. Connecticut has banned marriage before the age of16. In 11 other states legislation restricting child marriage is in the pipeline; six of these (Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) are considering a law to ban marriage under18 with no exceptions.

单词注解

legislation [ledʒɪs'leɪʃ(ə)n]立法，法律

pipeline['paɪplaɪn] n. 管道；输油管；传递途径

翻译

美国一直允许这样的童婚，这样的现象主要发生保守的宗教团体和农村地区。然而，就像在世界其他地方一样，这种做法已经变得不那么普遍了。2000年，有23,500个未成年人结婚，到2010年，这个数字下降到9000多一点，反映了社会规范的变化，女孩上学率的提高和婚姻的普遍下降。在过去的几年里，弗吉尼亚、德克萨斯和纽约引入了法律，限制了与合法成年人的婚姻。康涅狄格州在16岁之前就禁止结婚。在其他11个州，限制童婚的立法正在酝酿之中;其中6个州(亚利桑那州、佛罗里达州、马里兰州、马萨诸塞州、新泽西州和宾夕法尼亚州)正在考虑颁布一项禁止同性婚姻的法律