“Some rural girls see marriage as saving themselves from the control of their families,” says an activist in the capital, Sanaa. The outsider's impulse toward child bride rescue scenarios can ...

One chamber down, one to go on an effort to ban child marriage in Missouri. The bill sponsored by Sen. Tracy McCreery, ...

Under the legislation approved Thursday by the Legislature’s upper chamber, only those 18 and older will be able to get married in Missouri.

There has been a constant decline in child marriages in Malaysia, says women, family and community development minister Nancy Shukri. Citing data from the statistics department, Nancy said it has ...

Proponents of the bill included survivors of child marriages, including Sheena Eastman of Missouri, who gave emotional testimony. “I got married 45 days after my 15th birthday to a 21 year old ...