The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

Sherry Johnson, just 11 years old at the time, stood in a Florida courtroom in 1971 wearing what she later described as a wedding dress. She was about to be married against her will to a church deacon ...

Molly and Thomas pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter and were released from prison in 2024 In 2015, Jason Corbett was beaten to death by his wife of four years, Molly Martens, and her father, ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

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, ...

Prosecutors didn't want to risk that Molly Martens and her father Thomas Martens would be found not guilty of murder. So, though Molly said she "had no interest in taking a plea," in 2023 she pleaded ...

Streaming may thrive on make-believe, but reality always steals the spotlight. As the docuseries boom turns platforms into truth-telling arenas, A Deadly American Marriage on Netflix is not just ...

In 2025, the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire was raised to 18. On Thursday, the NH Senate voted to kill a House-passed exception for those in the military. All New England states now ban child ...

Courtney Stodden slammed child marriage as “America’s dirty little secret” as she revealed she was the “breadwinner” in her marriage at just 16 years old. Stodden, who told the story of her marriage ...