Rosalyn Yellin said she was a teenager when she got married and that her mom signed a consent form to let it happen.
Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and ...
A pregnant 14-year-old's 2005 Kansas marriage to a 22-year-old man prompted the state to set a minimum marriage age the ...
Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri lawmakers in 2018 ...
12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most ...
Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.
NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...