A person holds a sign that reads "Stop Child Marriage" during an event in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia on March 6, 2022. New Hampshire's child marriage ban took effect on January 1.

Story at a glance About 300,000 children and teens were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit that works t… ...

The very progressive state where child marriage is LEGAL - and local ACLU chapter claims it would be 'discriminatory' to ban it READ MORE: US child marriage - girls in mid-teens still wed older ...

Child marriage at any age is still legal in California. Our state must pass legislation making it legal for adults age 18 and up to marry.

Ending child marriage in the US will first require recognising it as an urgent, ongoing, domestic problem. Further stigmatising the practice or ostracising affected communities will not help.

Even though the prevalence of child marriage declined in India from 49.4% in 1993 to 22.3% in 2021, a Lancet Global Health study revealed that in the last eight years, ...

Child marriage in Michigan is now illegal after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Tuesday raising the minimum age to marry in the state to 18.. Michigan previously allowed 16- and 17-year ...

A bill banning child marriage in Connecticut was signed into law Friday by Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, a victory for an international child-protection movement.

Delaware was the first state to end child marriage in 2018. Since then, more than 10 other states have joined it in doing so. Those include Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New ...