Renee Shaw.

Good to be with you on this Thursday night in 2018, Kentucky band child marriage.

In most cases.

>> Now no one under 17 can get married at the National Conference of State Legislatures summit in Louisville this week, a forced marriage survivor told KET that Kentucky needs to look at this issue again.

Our June Leffler has more as Kentucky edition goes on the road Brady.

Recent New Jersey was forced into an arranged marriage when she was 19.

>> After 15 years she left her abusive husband.

Today she wears a wedding gown and chains as protests, symbols.

She advocates nationally for age limits on marriage and says Kentucky should do more.

>> So 17 was a good for stopped.

Unfortunately, 17 is still child marriage.

A 17 year-old, even the most mature 17 year-old.

Does not have the full rights of adult tight.

We don't get that until the day.

You turn 18 until you get the full rights of adults have the right to leave home and to a domestic violence shelter, retain an attorney with the legal action in their own name.

So you have those rights we can too easily be forced into marriage.

6 years ago, child welfare advocates pushed Kentucky's General Assembly to rewrite the law.

The head let kids of any age.

Mary.

>> Kentuckyian Donna Pollard spoke publicly about how her husband started grooming her when she was 14.

>> My mother consented tense, having a dating and then 2 years later when I was 16, she consented to my marriage to him.

Well, I think at the time she was looking to offload the burden of having a teenager at him, quite honestly, she was 45 years old when she had me in her pregnancy with me was extremely unexpected and unwanted and I always KET growing have that I was not someone that she wanted in her life.

And that's why when people say, well, what about parents that consent to their children be Mary?

But I think we need to consider is that oftentimes what seems to be pretty whole consent is actually parental coercion.

>> Now, 17 year-old son, Kentucky can marry if they have completed a high school education and get a judge's approval before the passage of Senate Bill.

48 6 years ago, the girl could marry at any age if she was pregnant and received a judge's approval for Kentucky edition.

I'm John Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June one year before the law changed the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting reported that since 2000 84% of marriages involving a minor were between a girl and an adult man.

Just 7% were between