Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

Despite a widespread consensus that marriage should be banned for minors, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Between 2000 and 2021, over 314,000 children were legally married in the United States - some as young as 10, and the vast majority of them girls. A new report, ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers is introducing for a third time legislation to toughen restrictions on child marriage.

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 ...

On January 1, New Hampshire officially implemented a comprehensive ban on child marriage, setting a stringent age limit of 18 for marriage under all circumstances. However, the legislation has ...

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Every three seconds, a girl is married before she turns 18. Twelve million girls every year are married as a child—12 million childhoods cut short. This is what happened to Binita in Nepal. Married at ...

Bangladesh must do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal of eliminating the crime by 2041, according to ...