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

At the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, survivor of child marriage and internationally-recognized expert on the issue Naila Amin advocates for federal law banning marriage for children ...

Unchained At Last, a group supporting bill HB 1455 to end child marriage in Washington state, meets with Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, left, who chairs the Senate Law & Justice Committee, inside the ...

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

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Since 17-year-old Rehana was a ...

India's fight against child marriage is gaining unstoppable momentum-from Bihar's faith leaders pledging change to Assam's ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city ...

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