agreed-upon ages of consent also guided judges in their decisions regarding what age was appropriate for child marriages, but onlyafter "It’s about normalizing things that used to be different or taboo." As partners and individual organizations, Tahirih and Unchained at Last have helped girls and women in the U.S. get out of forced marriages, with Unchained, specifically, helping several hundred. When asked how they locate child brides in need of help, Reiss responds, "Well, we don’t find them. They find us." Usually it's by word of mouth or a Google search. During the baby boom between the ’40s and ’60s, the number of child marriages in the U.S. increased, along with the number of children born. It was also when states increasingly required proof of age to apply for marriage. This led to marriage migrations, with couples going elsewhere to skirt local marriage laws, a practice that dwindled by the 1970s, as most states by then required couples to show their birth certificates. (Before then, they were asked, “Do you swear?” Or they lied on applications or forged parental consent.)