Lifting the veil: Why children are still getting married in America. Some US states have ‘weaker marriage laws than Afghanistan, Honduras and Malawi’.Lucy Anna Gray ...

In 2015, the U.S., as an influential United Nations member, signed on to a global target to abolish child marriage by 2030, thus depicting all marriages under 18 years as unequivocally harmful.

Delaware and New Jersey were the first states to completely end child marriage in 2018, followed shortly by American Samoa. The U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota followed suit in 2020.

Story at a glance About 300,000 children and teens were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit that works t… ...

Child marriage remains legal in most U.S. states, leaving minors open to abuse and vulnerabilities within the legal system, advocates say. Only 12 states currently have a minimum marriage age of ...

Legislation to restrict marriage for Missouri residents under age 18 had been stalled by Republican critics for years. The ...

The American Community Survey data is “giving us a very good indication that child marriage is a significant problem in California,” Reiss added. The lack of clear numbers on child marriage in ...

The Texas Legislature is poised to end the controversial practice of child marriage in the Lone Star State with a bill the House passed Wednesday. House Bill 168, authored by Rep. Jon Rosenthal, D ...