Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

When Kary was just 13, her parents tried to force her into marriage with a boy in her village in Cambodia. Kary, a proud ...

Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. In ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...

The teen bride at the center of this story keeps hearing the same line from strangers online: what happened to her is legal, but it still feels wrong. Her critics insist they are not accusing her ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of child brides in Africa will more than double by 2050 if current trends persist because of rapid population growth and limited social change, the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A fresh push by Zimbabwean government to tackle child marriage could land guardians like Mhlongo in trouble in the southern African nation where child marriage is rife. Mhlongo, who was Tlou's ...