These considerations stand in stark contrast to the exacting lens with which American foreign policy frames child marriage in the Global South. In 2015, the U.S., as an influential United Nations ...

"We have a few instances a year where 40- to 50-year-old men are marrying 16- to 17-year-old girls in the state of Texas," ...

Current state law allows children as young as 16 to marry if they are legally emancipated from their parents, a situation ...

Before the House takes a final vote on the bill, it could face a proposal that would allow adults and minors to marry if ...

A graph differentiating the evolution between the wealthiest 20% of the population and the poorest shows that in the Latin American case, for the last 25 years child marriage has only gone down ...

Child marriage rates in the state have dropped drastically since then. In 2016, Texas saw nearly 400 marriages involving at least one minor, according to an American-Statesman analysis of data ...