"Child marriage gave my abuser, an adult man, who at the time was in the military, the power to groom, arrest and rape me when I was 14 years old," Wright testified, ...

The Karnataka cabinet has approved a bill to curb child marriage by making engagements involving minors a punishable offense.

In 2021, the state of New York passed “Naila’s Law,” one of the strongest laws against child marriage in the United States. It sets a minimum age requirement for marriage at 18, no exceptions.

DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen, her baby a stillborn. Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef was married last year at ...

New Hampshire's child marriage ban went into effect on Wednesday, making it the 13th state to require people to be 18 years old to get married. Why It Matters.

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, D ...