Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

Despite a widespread consensus that marriage should be banned for minors, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice ...

Stodden, who married ex-husband Doug Hutchinson at age 16 with her parents' permission, tells PEOPLE about revisiting her story for a Lifetime biopic ...

MADISON – Rock County legislators introduced legislation on Tuesday to end child marriage in Wisconsin. Sen. Mark Spreitzer, ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and advocates on Thursday launched a new push to end child marriage in Kentucky. The R.I.S.E. Kentucky Coalition stands for Reclaim Innocence, ...

(CNN) — Since 17-year-old Rehana was a child, she dreamt of supporting her family. An only child to parents struggling to make ends meet in Bangladesh, she says, “I always thought, I have no brother, ...

I never thought I’d see the day my daughter would convince me not to marry her off early,” said 40-year-old Laxmi Bhoye, an unlettered resident of Mokhada block. “Now, I tell other parents too — let ...

Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the ...