Most Americans think of child marriage as a vestige of a bygone era. And yet in every state, people under 18 are allowed to marry. By Rebecca Beitsch, Stateline ...

GUNTUR: In order to create awareness among people on the evil of child marriage, district women and child welfare organisation has been screening short films through Guntur Municipal Corporation ...

Short film against child marriage released Let Me Fly was made as as part of Zero Tolerance to Child Marriage drive Published - April 26, 2022 11:36 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram ...

Marriage among 15- to 17-year-olds is less common in the Northeast and the Midwest. In Maine and Rhode Island, for example, only two of every 1,000 in this age group were married that year – less than ...

Laxmi Sargara, an 18-year-old who was married to another child when she was a baby, rebelled when her in-laws came to take her away from her family. She eventually got the marriage annulled ...

It happened in Senegal last week, at a conference organized by young Africans to address the issues of child marriage and female genital mutilation. Here's the story behind the fatwa.

How we found our stories of child marriage By Eric Adler. Updated March 13, 2018 4:54 PM. READ MORE. Missouri’s child brides. ... But in that short time, ...

Nine of the 10 countries with the world’s highest rates of child marriage are in Africa: Niger, Chad and Central African Republic, Guinea, Mozambique, Mali, Burkina Faso and South Sudan, and ...

Fatouma has been volunteering for years with a nonprofit group fighting child marriage in Niger. The 21-year-old knows the danger; as a teen, she fled home twice to avoid becoming a child bride.

NC lawmakers vote to outlaw child marriage, bill moves to governor's desk Senate Bill 35 raises the legal age for marriage in the state from 14 to 16 years old By Audrey Conklin Fox News ...

Why is it so hard to end child marriage in America? In 1762, North Carolina’s colonial governor, Arthur Dobbs, married his second wife, 15-year-old Justina Davis.