The Missouri Senate gave approval to a bill that would close a loophole allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to get married with a ...

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

At least 13 states have laws banning minors from getting married. Oregon is currently one of 10 states that leave the option ...

The bill, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Tracy McCreery, would ban child marriage outright. State Sen. Rick Brattin, a ...

AN estimated 12 million girls are married every year before they reach the age of 18. That is over 32,000 girls a day. Or almost 23 girls every minute who are being married off too soon.

Sydney Davis, would have removed the section of existing law which allows for a single parent or guardian to sign off on a child marriage. Proponents of the bill emphasized the risks of abuse and ...

This risk to child health is one of the reasons Patrick Nash, a researcher and co-founder at the Pharos Foundation research institute, wants to see cousin marriage banned. In a paper published in ...