My book argues that, regrettably, legal measures to protect women and girls by criminalising child marriage face substantial hurdles.

Recently, the country announced an ambitious goal — eliminate child marriage by 2025 — and also signed the United Nations' global development goals to end child marriage by 2030.

Lawmakers in New Hampshire last week passed a bill that would ban child marriage, despite one lawmaker going viral for arguing that a “ripe, fertile” teen could be more likely to have an ...