Child marriage was legal in all 50 states until 2018. Ten states have since passed bans to end the practice. But why haven't more?

In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, teenage girls are commonly forced to marry before reaching adulthood, in spite of laws setting ...

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

A number too enormous to count, is probably pretty accurate to describe the number of ‘child brides’ who are sold into marriage, all around the world, every single day. In fact, in the time it took ...

‘My entire childhood was taken from me’: Advocates push for ban on child marriage after bill stalls in statehouse Planned Parenthood, ACLU oppose bill that would set minimum marriage age to 18 ...

The world cannot keep its promise to end child marriage by year 2030 if California continues to hold up progress.

Gen Z is largely in favor of child marriage, breaking away with other generations' view on the controversial practice, recent Newsweek polling data shows. In the Newsweek poll, 44 percent of Gen Z ...

New Hampshire is the latest state to ban child marriage, but it is still legal in other parts of the country.

Progress has been made, but at the rate we're going, it will take another 300 years to end child marriage around the world.

While other states banned child marriage, this relic from a sexist past remains legal and happens at an alarming rate in CT.

Although child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation by the United Nations, there is no minimum age requirement to become married in California.