Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to billgate f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. You know, folks,
Speaker 1: we are waiting with bated breath for the decision to
Speaker 1: come down from the Supreme Court that throws a grenade
Speaker 1: on Rob Wade that essentially, for the first time in
Speaker 1: close to fifty years, women and people with uteruses in
Speaker 1: this country will not have access to abortion, They will
Speaker 1: not have bodily autonomy. We will have a patchwork of
Speaker 1: care in this country that really will come down to
Speaker 1: your economic status and your ability to be able to
Speaker 1: get on planes and buses and trains in order to
Speaker 1: access the type of care that you need. But in
Speaker 1: some places like Texas and Tennessee and Florida, you that
Speaker 1: action of leaving your state to receive reproductive care can
Speaker 1: amount to a jail sentence, can amount to your loved
Speaker 1: ones or friends or colleagues who may be hard up
Speaker 1: for cash, throwing you under the bus so that they
Speaker 1: can get a ten thousand dollars or more bounty for
Speaker 1: being able to dime you out to authorities. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't think that they left the state to go on vacation.
Speaker 1: I think it was something much more nefarious than that.
Speaker 1: We have often said on this show and in other
Speaker 1: places and spaces that what the religious, radicalized right wing
Speaker 1: party wants in this country is Gilead. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I say that, I say it tongue in cheek.
Speaker 1: But the reality is is that if you are a
Speaker 1: person of color in this country that knows even just
Speaker 1: the surface of America's history, you know that Gilead has
Speaker 1: already been forced sterilization, forced abortion for women of color
Speaker 1: and indigenous women in this country. That has been the norm,
Speaker 1: and there has been no recourse Roe v. Wade, and
Speaker 1: that decision allowed women and now also people with uterus
Speaker 1: is to be able to access that freedom and that power.
Speaker 1: Now it's going to be taken away. The thing is
Speaker 1: is that this isn't going to end there. This is
Speaker 1: about full and complete control. When I talk about abortion,
Speaker 1: I'm also talking about voting rights. I'm also talking about
Speaker 1: school careerulum and the fight against critical race theory, which
Speaker 1: by the way, still is not taught in K through
Speaker 1: twelve schools. I'm talking about the anti trans bills, the numerous,
Speaker 1: the hundreds that have been put out across the country,
Speaker 1: all of This is about control. It is about toxic masculinity,
Speaker 1: It is about every type of phobia that you could
Speaker 1: think of. It is about the desire to turn the
Speaker 1: clock back, the desire to have ownership over other people's
Speaker 1: lives and their bodies, and that if they aren't like you,
Speaker 1: operate like you, then they don't deserve to exist. It's
Speaker 1: as simple as that when we look at these manifestos
Speaker 1: that we've seen pop up, whether with the Buffalo white
Speaker 1: nationalist shooter, whether with the Proud Boys or the oath Keepers,
Speaker 1: whether it is the gunmen in New Zealand who basically
Speaker 1: all pull from the same place. Fox News Donald Trump
Speaker 1: putin these figures right of people who have decided that
Speaker 1: their way is the only way. I try and say
Speaker 1: that we have options, that there is still hope, but
Speaker 1: the reality is is that I am not completely sure
Speaker 1: of that fact. My next guest, who's coming up shortly
Speaker 1: tells of a story that is so heartbreaking and was
Speaker 1: really challenging to listen to. Dawn Tyree is a person
Speaker 1: who supports her LGBTQA community, and she was robbed through
Speaker 1: a child forced marriage. She was robbed of her sexual orientation.
Speaker 1: She struggled for years with self harm because of the oppression,
Speaker 1: and just recently, at the age of forty nine, has
Speaker 1: come out and decided to reclaim the power that has
Speaker 1: been taken away from her as identifying as a pansexual
Speaker 1: at the age of forty nine. What how are these
Speaker 1: things linked unless somebody is doing harm to you or
Speaker 1: to themselves. And I mean real harm, not the perceived
Speaker 1: harm that Greg Abbott thinks that parents of trans children
Speaker 1: are doing by caring for and loving their children by
Speaker 1: giving them gender affirming surgery. No, no, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about that harm. I'm talking about real harm. Who are
Speaker 1: we to tell people how they should show up, how
Speaker 1: they should identify, how they should love, how they should exist.
Speaker 1: The freedom supposedly around religion, the freedom of bodily autonomy,
Speaker 1: was for us to be able to move without shackles,
Speaker 1: whether they be literal or figurative, for us to be
Speaker 1: able to move and understand and grow into ourselves without
Speaker 1: the harsh spotlight or shame that other people project onto us.
Speaker 1: Freedom of religion was about being able to practice right.
Speaker 1: It was not supposed to be about the religious radicalized
Speaker 1: rights ability to prescribe their interpretation of their Bible onto
Speaker 1: the rest of us. This is a story about power,
Speaker 1: and frankly, we have moved to a space where it
Speaker 1: isn't a conversation about differing ideologies. It is about good
Speaker 1: versus evil. It is about seeing all people's humanity, regardless
Speaker 1: of if it mirrors your own. At the core of it,
Speaker 1: what we are saying when we talk about progressive politics,
Speaker 1: when we talk about progression, it is a fact that
Speaker 1: when we were writing the forefathers were writing this constitution,
Speaker 1: I was considered chattel. Women did not have the right
Speaker 1: to vote, we didn't have the right to exist, to speak,
Speaker 1: to be queer. People were hung burned at the stake.
Speaker 1: Isn't it a good thing that we've evolved from that
Speaker 1: place that we can continue to try and perfect this
Speaker 1: very imperfect union. But here we are in this moment
Speaker 1: where there is a real power struggle that is at hand.
Speaker 1: And again the media allows for Republicans to continue to
Speaker 1: hide behind ideology, but it isn't around oh well, I'm
Speaker 1: a fiscal conservative and I'm this and i'm that. No,
Speaker 1: if you don't call these people what they are and
Speaker 1: buy their name white supremists, Christian fundamentalist, Christian fascist like
Speaker 1: the group in Dallas that decided to try and enter
Speaker 1: into a gay bar and cause harm. Why would they
Speaker 1: travel to this space? Ain't nobody invite them? Why can't
Speaker 1: you just allow people to be and find community where
Speaker 1: they are. Why do you see yourself as the one
Speaker 1: that gets to dictate what makes sense. If you don't
Speaker 1: want your kids learning about queer people, black people, Latin
Speaker 1: X people, indigenous people, pull them out of school, send
Speaker 1: them to the fucking Catholic school, send them to Christian school,
Speaker 1: fucking homeschool. But you don't get to dictate what curriculum
Speaker 1: looks like for the rest of us because you only
Speaker 1: want to see the world through a white, cis hetero
Speaker 1: mail lens. But we don't ever push back, We just cower.
Speaker 1: And so I think that this conversation with Dawn Tyree
Speaker 1: is one that is illuminating because her experience didn't come
Speaker 1: through Trumpism, It was decades prior to that. It was
Speaker 1: about the fundamental treatment and mistreatment and abuse of girls
Speaker 1: and of women in this country. So when we say
Speaker 1: oftentimes this is not who we are, we don't really
Speaker 1: have a strong foundational understanding of who we are because
Speaker 1: all America has ever known is violence, is hatred, is misogyny,
Speaker 1: is homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, patriarchy, and if we don't excavate
Speaker 1: these true then they will keep repeating themselves. So coming
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Speaker 1: to Woke a f Daily Dawn Tyree, who is an author, activist,
Speaker 1: and survivor of child marriage. Dawn, you know your story
Speaker 1: was a part of an A and E documentary that
Speaker 1: was done and you in this space talk about how
Speaker 1: you were forced to marry your abuser at the young
Speaker 1: age of thirteen when you were pregnant, and I want
Speaker 1: you to explain to the Woke AF audience what child
Speaker 1: marriage is and why it's a conversation that we should
Speaker 1: be having in this country as we're hearing places like
Speaker 1: Tennessee and others working to lower the age of marriage, right,
Speaker 1: would they apparently want to lower the age of everything
Speaker 1: for you? To get an assault rifle for you to
Speaker 1: be able to get married. But God forbid you be
Speaker 1: able to have bodily autonomy. That's something that you need
Speaker 1: all different kind layers of consent for. So tell us
Speaker 1: a bit more about your story. Well, my story is
Speaker 1: that I was forced to marry at thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: It was a family friend who had actually been my
Speaker 1: legal guardian, who I referred to as my nanny. He
Speaker 1: had been sexually abusing me for two years, and when
Speaker 1: I became pregnant, the fix all was for us to
Speaker 1: get married. It saved him from a prison sentence and
Speaker 1: saved my parents from child abuse and neglect charges, so
Speaker 1: it basically saved all the adults and put me in
Speaker 1: servitude as a sex slave to my abuser. Oh God, Dawn,
Speaker 1: can you tell us what state was this happening in.
Speaker 1: It happened in Texas, and a lot of people would say, oh,
Speaker 1: of course it did. But you know, there are nine
Speaker 1: states today that have no minimum age for marriage, so
Speaker 1: it could have easily happened, and California is one of them.
Speaker 1: And we actually lived in California before we moved to Texas,
Speaker 1: so we were really only in Texas for a couple
Speaker 1: of months before the marriage took place. Do you even
Speaker 1: what was your mindset during this time of I imagine
Speaker 1: that in order to get married at the age of thirteen,
Speaker 1: you had to have parental consent, right, so what can
Speaker 1: you walk us through what that yeah, what that process is,
Speaker 1: and what that looked like from from what you Recallum,
Speaker 1: So it typically takes parental consent or you know, a
Speaker 1: judge discretion, and in my case, it only took my
Speaker 1: father's signature to marry UM. What that looked like to
Speaker 1: me at that time? UM, I was cohersd. I would
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have a say in what was
Speaker 1: going on? Who as a child? A child you know,
Speaker 1: defined by the law as anyone under eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: So at thirteen years old, I really did have a say.
Speaker 1: I was groomed to marry him for two weeks before
Speaker 1: the marriage took place. I mean I was getting the
Speaker 1: input from him that he was saving me from a
Speaker 1: bad situation, that it was in my best centrist. My
Speaker 1: stepmother was reinforcing that with that I couldn't stay at
Speaker 1: home with a baby, and that you know, we needed
Speaker 1: to be married. It was going to save him and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure where my father was standing
Speaker 1: in this. I think he was under a lot of influence,
Speaker 1: you know, by my stepmother, and so he went ahead
Speaker 1: and gave consent to this marriage to my rapists who
Speaker 1: was I was thirteen and he was thirty two years old.
Speaker 1: It was clearly, you know, a statutory rape, and in
Speaker 1: marriage in the United States to a minor overrides the
Speaker 1: federal law of statutory rape. So at that point that
Speaker 1: no charges, not not during the marriage or even after.
Speaker 1: When I was trying to escape, I tried to file
Speaker 1: police reports, and because of the marriage, it totally saves
Speaker 1: him and exonerates the perpetrator from any charges. So let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. You're thirteen years old, this man
Speaker 1: this I mean, I would refer to him as a rapist,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to put words in your con is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's thirty five years old. You go before whom in
Speaker 1: order to have this marriage a judge, right, that's correct.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to go before the judge. So
Speaker 1: the clerk will issue the license and you go before
Speaker 1: the judge. And in some states, the judge, you know,
Speaker 1: may have some discernment and there may be an investigation which,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, an investigation by the court is just
Speaker 1: a band aid or you know, it's only for the
Speaker 1: consciousness of the court to put a rubber stamp on
Speaker 1: the marriage. It's saying, look, we've done this safety you know,
Speaker 1: check and everything's fine. And in our experience, in my experience,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. M You know, when social services steps
Speaker 1: in and there's an investigation, most children are not going
Speaker 1: to out their family out their parents are out their abuser. Um.
Speaker 1: And so it really serves no purpose. In fact, it
Speaker 1: puts a children more at risk because they have to
Speaker 1: go home with these people that have threatened them, you know, emotionally,
Speaker 1: physically and otherwise. UM to not speak against the family.
Speaker 1: How long did this, this this marriage? This this this
Speaker 1: trap for you right, how long did this this last?
Speaker 1: I was I was trapped for a little over three years, UM.
Speaker 1: And it is a trap. So thank you for referring
Speaker 1: to it as a trap. Miners that mary have no
Speaker 1: legal recourse. I mean I tried to go to a shelter.
Speaker 1: They turned me away because we were miners. Try to
Speaker 1: rent an apartment, you can't sign a lease, Try to
Speaker 1: hire a lawyer. Lawyer won't go into contract with you,
Speaker 1: I couldn't rent a hotel room. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a joke, you know. Here I am at sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: I have two children in tow. We're trying to escape
Speaker 1: a very violent situation, and the shelters turned us away.
Speaker 1: We literally couldn't go to a women's shelter or a
Speaker 1: homeless shelter. And it's that way right now today across
Speaker 1: the nation. So let me get this straight, right, because
Speaker 1: this is just this is the insanity of a country
Speaker 1: that says that we love and protect children. Right, We're
Speaker 1: watching children get gunned down in their classrooms and lawmakers
Speaker 1: say they can't do anything about it. And you're telling
Speaker 1: me that basically, you're able your parent, one parent is
Speaker 1: able to sign over your bodily autonomy yourself as a child,
Speaker 1: because in the eyes quote unquote of the law, you
Speaker 1: are a miner until you reach the age of eighteen, right,
Speaker 1: And so they sign over your bodily autonomy, your authority
Speaker 1: over self to your abuser. And then in the eyes
Speaker 1: of the law, you were married, but you are not
Speaker 1: a woman to be able to go into a shelter
Speaker 1: with your two children. You got that one, correct, you know,
Speaker 1: And not only that, like by losing it my bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: I was expecting my second child at fourteen years old,
Speaker 1: you know, and not one time when I, you know,
Speaker 1: went to my prenatal appointments or was seeing the physician
Speaker 1: or my doctor or whomever, did someone stop and asked
Speaker 1: me if this was a choice that I would that
Speaker 1: I was okay with or I don't recall ever being
Speaker 1: educated about birth control or anything like that. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, you just you're completely removed from any self governing.
Speaker 1: Did you think that you had done something wrong? Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it felt like that. And I gohead, it really felt
Speaker 1: like I had done something that, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: brought this all upon myself. And because I was hearing
Speaker 1: that from my stepmother and things like that, so the
Speaker 1: negative voices kind of go, you know, their own repeat um.
Speaker 1: And so I felt like I deserved the situation that
Speaker 1: I was in, that I had brought it upon myself,
Speaker 1: and you know, the only the only thing that I
Speaker 1: could do for myself was to figure out how to
Speaker 1: get out of this situation. And that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a whole other can of worms. It's like when the
Speaker 1: miner decides or wants out of the abuse of the situation.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little bit paidback. Sorry. Um. When the
Speaker 1: minor wants out of the abusive situation, often the family
Speaker 1: will disown them. So now you have not only the
Speaker 1: community turning this this child away with their children or not. Um,
Speaker 1: you don't have any family support. UM, So you really
Speaker 1: are alone. And it's it's quite a shame that even
Speaker 1: the community looks down upon, you know, child brides. It's
Speaker 1: almost like, UM, it's it's shameful, and it is put
Speaker 1: on on us that it was our fault when in
Speaker 1: fact we didn't have any choice when it happened. What
Speaker 1: how did you go, Dawn, from being a sixteen year
Speaker 1: old with two children trying to flee an abuser, no
Speaker 1: family to run to that was that was going to
Speaker 1: open their doors in their arms to you to be
Speaker 1: to where you are now, to becoming an activist and
Speaker 1: an author. What was that arc? Who? Um? Part of
Speaker 1: you know, the emotional change and kind of the awareness
Speaker 1: wake up call, if you will, for me, was after
Speaker 1: my daughter was born and I began to worry about
Speaker 1: her safety as an infant. I mean, this is just repulsive.
Speaker 1: But at fifteen and sixteen years old. I did not
Speaker 1: want him changing her diaper. And that's when I began
Speaker 1: to plot my way out, like try to figure out
Speaker 1: how am I going to get out of this situation.
Speaker 1: And we had to, you know, my family unit how
Speaker 1: to be separated because it wasn't possible. As I had mentioned,
Speaker 1: we were turned away from shelters and you know, just
Speaker 1: had had no means or resources to get out of
Speaker 1: that situation. And so my children actually stayed with his
Speaker 1: parents while I stayed with an anonymous family member to
Speaker 1: get my feet on the ground. And then on one
Speaker 1: of the visits, I would go visit my children on
Speaker 1: the weekends, and on one of those visits, I packed
Speaker 1: him up and I took them and it was very messy.
Speaker 1: And again because my husband at that time, so I'm
Speaker 1: sixteen years old, he is my husband and my legal guardian,
Speaker 1: even though I was an emancipated minors, so he had
Speaker 1: the rights to report me as a runaway, and when
Speaker 1: law enforcement caught up to me, they would threaten to
Speaker 1: return me to my rapists. So I mean this, it's
Speaker 1: a violent, perpetual circle of being trapped and authority and
Speaker 1: control and manipulation, you know, and so I was able
Speaker 1: to kind of stay undercover, you know, and and fly
Speaker 1: under the radar for our safety until I got my
Speaker 1: feet on the ground. And that is it was very difficult.
Speaker 1: I would move into I'd find a roommate, you know,
Speaker 1: apply for the room, put the down payment on the room,
Speaker 1: move in, and then two weeks later, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: fake it and say, oh my goodness, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry. I have two children and I need to
Speaker 1: suddenly they had to come and live with me suddenly. Um.
Speaker 1: And and that was something that I would repeat over
Speaker 1: and over and over so that we would have a
Speaker 1: place to live because it was hard to find it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't rent a place, but I could find a roommate,
Speaker 1: you know, a situation that would be willing to let
Speaker 1: me move in, and then I would move my children in.
Speaker 1: And it's you know, the poverty and the things that
Speaker 1: we went through, um for many years, at least a decade,
Speaker 1: where we would, you know, live without electricity at times,
Speaker 1: living without basic essential needs, you know, toilet paper, toothpaste,
Speaker 1: things like that. And you know, my children they don't
Speaker 1: know any different. When you're raising your children, it's like
Speaker 1: that's just life. It's life that we don't have toilet
Speaker 1: paper and we're you know, using other means to keep
Speaker 1: ourselves to to you know, have hygiene and things like that.
Speaker 1: The the the forfeited education increases, the poverty with child brides,
Speaker 1: the chances of IPv increases like fourfold for child brides.
Speaker 1: It's really sad how we set this is a setup
Speaker 1: for failure. You had mentioned the divorce rate in the
Speaker 1: nation is like fifty percent. For child marriages, it's over
Speaker 1: eighty percent. So how many dawn now that you have,
Speaker 1: I mean gone through, my God so much? How did
Speaker 1: your activism start and wear? And if you have any
Speaker 1: statistics or numbers, how many girls in this country that
Speaker 1: says that they care about girls, that says that they
Speaker 1: care about children are in similar situations. We know that
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand children were married between two thousan twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen in the United States. Some sixty thousand of those
Speaker 1: marriages could have been punishable by statutory rate laws and
Speaker 1: given a prison sentence. I mean, that is just extraordinary.
Speaker 1: And we have places right now in this country that
Speaker 1: are looking to lower the age, as I said at
Speaker 1: the top, like in Tennessee, to lower the age of marriage.
Speaker 1: And so when you talk and you share your story,
Speaker 1: what is it that you're trying to get people, including
Speaker 1: our lawmakers to understand. I think we use our voices
Speaker 1: for the voiceless. I mean, you know, I felt like
Speaker 1: my situation was a very isolated situation. And you know,
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, when I myself started to investigate child
Speaker 1: marriage and United States was totally blown away that it
Speaker 1: was legal in all fifty states that year twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: And so using our voices, we're trying to influence change
Speaker 1: and protect children from child marriage. We're learning that it's
Speaker 1: connected to human trafficking, sex trafficking, child labor. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's an overlap there that's frightening. Hearing that other states
Speaker 1: want to lower the age for marriage is terrifying. We
Speaker 1: have nine states in the US right now that have
Speaker 1: no minimum age for marriage. I just don't I Like,
Speaker 1: you say this to me, and I'm like, how how
Speaker 1: is that something that that could even stand? Is it?
Speaker 1: Do you believe it's because people don't know? Like And
Speaker 1: when I say people, I mean, like the masses don't
Speaker 1: know this fact. Or is it that we know and
Speaker 1: we just don't care, Like what's your opinion on that.
Speaker 1: I think my opinion. Okay, First of all, people are
Speaker 1: shocked to learn, you know, about child marriage in the US.
Speaker 1: So it's true that a lot of people just don't
Speaker 1: know and are unaware, and even lawmakers, legislators are surprised
Speaker 1: when they find out that, you know, it's happening in
Speaker 1: their state. And so we bring awareness to it. We
Speaker 1: try to educate the legislators and then influence change because
Speaker 1: of the archaic laws that are in place, those are
Speaker 1: the little loopholes that allow it. And then we come
Speaker 1: up against opposition where they want to keep those in
Speaker 1: place because we believe that you know, Romeo and Juliet
Speaker 1: deserve to be married, and we believe that the sixteen
Speaker 1: or seventeen year old that got pregnant deserves, you know,
Speaker 1: to not have a bastard child. And so that's how
Speaker 1: the stories of survivors will get you know, an override
Speaker 1: and those laws will stay in place. I mean, we
Speaker 1: had this is really interesting just recently in the state
Speaker 1: of Alaska. We had a senator, you know, actually demand
Speaker 1: to go on record to state that she herself, at
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, was as mature as at twenty five
Speaker 1: year old and believes that a fifteen year old can
Speaker 1: get married a mature one, a mature fifteen year old
Speaker 1: can get married. I mean, and you know, my grandkid
Speaker 1: is fifteen years old, and I look at them and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, no no, you
Speaker 1: should not be married. And it's astonishing the opposition that
Speaker 1: we get. Do you think that's the opposition tied to
Speaker 1: some perverse ideology with regard to Christian fundamentalism, Like is
Speaker 1: it is it religion that is what you find to
Speaker 1: be where the obstacles are because I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: talk to me about the state of Alaska and the
Speaker 1: people politicians that they've produced, but um, you know, but
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, like, is this tied in ways to religiosity?
Speaker 1: In some cases, yes, it is, and in others it's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, we get human rights activists that are saying
Speaker 1: this is you know, um it human rights activists that
Speaker 1: will say this, this is an infringement on reproductive rights
Speaker 1: or the right to be married, or the right to
Speaker 1: practice a culture, the right to practice their religion. And
Speaker 1: so as you can see, we can get it from
Speaker 1: both sides. Where of the fundamentalists, you know, this is
Speaker 1: by practice and by nature, and then also by human rights.
Speaker 1: You have the freedom of religion and culture practices. So
Speaker 1: Dawn Um, you also are you know, on top of
Speaker 1: all of the work and the writing and the things
Speaker 1: that you've done, you're an advisory board member for the
Speaker 1: Resiliency Foundation. So I just want to give you an
Speaker 1: opportunity as we close out to tell folks about the
Speaker 1: Resiliency Foundation and how they can get involved. Thank you well.
Speaker 1: Genevieve Meyer is the founder of the Resiliency Foundation and
Speaker 1: offers support and resources to survivors survivors of child marriage.
Speaker 1: And right now I'm working mainly with Global Hope three
Speaker 1: sixty five, who is fighting child marriage globally, human trafficking
Speaker 1: globally and here in the States, with a primary focus
Speaker 1: on ending child marriage in California. I want to take
Speaker 1: it all the way up and down the West Coast
Speaker 1: because we know that's a corridor for trafficking and child marriage.
Speaker 1: But you can go to the California Coalition and Child
Speaker 1: Marriage Dot Org and we can help you draft a
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