Unchained At Last, a group supporting bill HB 1455 to end child marriage in Washington state, meets with Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, left, who chairs the Senate Law & Justice Committee, inside ...

“Marriage is an issue of social justice for children,” insisted Faust. “And when we fail to defend marriage as it is properly understood, we fail to defend children.” ...

Revised child marriage bill in West Virginia gets Senate approval, heads to Gov. Jim Justice The WV bill would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent. Associated Press.

Delaware was the first state to end child marriage in 2018. Since then, more than 10 other states have joined it in doing so. Those include Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New ...

Pennsylvania has become the third state to fully ban child marriage, following Delaware and New Jersey.. Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law last week a bill that sets 18 as the minimum age to obtain a ...

Child marriage protects predators, must end, former bride tells Kentucky lawmakers By Lukas Mikelionis , Fox News Published February 23, 2018 2:00am EST | Updated February 23, 2018 2:07am EST ...

Jeanne Smoot, Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy with the national organization Tahirih Justice Center, said the non-profit has examined more than 500 child and adult forced marriage cases in ...

The heart-wrenching case of a 14-year-old girl who died during childbirth at an Apostolic church in Marange, in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland province, has sent shockwaves across the country.

According to Unchained, a non-profit organization that combats forced and child marriage in the U.S., nearly 300,000 minors, under age 18 and as young as 10, were married in the U.S. between 2000 ...

According to the Department of Public Health’s marriage license data, about 10,000 children under 18 were married, many to significantly older spouses — even some men two and three times the ...