In a 19-16 vote, the South Dakota Senate voted Tuesday to kill a bill that would raise the age to marry in South Dakota to 18 ...

A key House committee deadlocked over whether to recommend support or political death for carving out an exception to the ban ...

Lawmakers have introduced two bills this year to limit or outlaw marriage for minors. Previous efforts to pass laws that would keep young pregnant mothers from marrying have failed.

About one out of every five marriages in Kyrgyzstan involve “bride kidnapping,” according to preliminary findings of a European Union study on gender equality in the Central Asian nation. The high ...

Federal prosecutors allege the estranged husband of a millionaire art dealer conspired to have him killed in Brazil over a ...

Proponents of the bill included survivors of child marriages, including Sheena Eastman of Missouri, who gave emotional testimony. “I got married 45 days after my 15th birthday to a 21 year old ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee revealed he fathered a child ‘outside of their marriage’ in September 2024 ...

Sharia law, which influences much of Iraq’s legal system, permits child marriage under certain conditions, often tied to the ...