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, ...
The Texas House Subcommittee on Family and Fiduciary Relationships took testimony on House Bill 168 on April 7, 2025. A bill to ban child marriage in Texas has passed the state’s House of ...
Child marriage in Bangladesh has declined over the past six years, but progress remains too slow to meet national or global targets, according to findings of the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster ...
MADISON — Rock County legislators introduced legislation on Tuesday to end child marriage in Wisconsin. Sen. Mark Spreitzer, D-Beloit, Rep. Ann Roe, D-Janesville, Rep. Clinton Anderson, D-Beloit, and ...
Despite progress, a practice that America condemns elsewhere as a human rights abuse remains legal under some circumstances ...
Missouri will stop seizing foster children's Social Security benefits to cover foster care costs. The new law also bans marriage for anyone under 18 and voids non-disclosure agreements in child sex ...
In 2025, the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire was raised to 18. On Thursday, the NH Senate voted to kill a House-passed exception for those in the military. All New England states now ban child ...