Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri lawmakers in 2018 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri ...

12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

Explore India's progress and challenges in ending child marriage by 2030, including key schemes and social disparities.

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...