On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the Child Marriage Prohibition Bill with a majority vote. The new law sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for both males and females, and ...

Rosalyn Yellin said she was a teenager when she got married and that her mom signed a consent form to let it happen.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 17-year-old Rehana was a child, she dreamt of supporting her family. An only child to parents struggling to make ends meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEED, India — When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty. Kamble said ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.