Aged 15 and already pregnant after marrying last year, Pinku Das Sarkar has no idea what to do following her husband's Feb. 2 ...

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

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.

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

It is legal for 16 and 17-year-olds in Northern Ireland to marry, unlike in England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

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

A child bride faces execution in Iran for the murder of her husband – after years trapped in an abusive marriage – unless she ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers say remote and hybrid work schedules could increase the nation's fertility rate by making it easier for Americans ...

A new study examines how well U.S. states are addressing child sexual abuse. Florida, and most others, got an F. Here's why.