A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would outlaw child marriage in Ohio. “No child should have to be as resilient as I was to reach adulthood,” child marriage survivor ...

Minors as young as sixteen years old can get married in Colorado. A new bill seeks to raise the minimum age to eighteen.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Legislators pushing bipartisan legislation to prohibit marriage before age 18 in Ohio presented the perspectives of domestic violence advocates and women with experiences entering ...

“For me, the core of a romance novel is having that agency," says Jasmine Guillory. "We want girls to be able to make these ...

UN warns a girl marries every three seconds worldwide, urging urgent action to end child marriage and protect girls’ health, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An age difference of no more than four years was a new requirement amended to a bill that aims to ...

The Texas Legislature is poised to end the controversial practice of child marriage in the Lone Star State with a bill the House passed Wednesday. House Bill 168, authored by Rep. Jon Rosenthal, ...

Texas legislators are considering a bill that would eliminate the remaining legal pathway for minors to marry in the state. House Bill 168, introduced by Democrat Texas state Representative Jon ...

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 ...

By Zuzana Schwidrowski and Omolola Mary LipedeADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the ...

A bipartisan bill seeks to do in Ohio what 16 other states have done, and shut the door to marriage by minors permanently.