Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.

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 ...

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 ...

The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank group behind Project 2025, has released a paper that suggests the ...

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, ...