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Kidnappers Planned to Force a 12-Year-Old Girl into Marriage. A Pride of Lions Came To Her Rescue
Learn how early marriage impacts children’s futures and why a ban is crucial for their safety.
Courtney Stodden breaks down in tears over 'abuse' at age 16
She was just 16-years-old when she married Hutchison, who was 51 at the time, at a Las Vegas wedding chapel in 2011.
I feared the cult would kidnap my children — then they vanished
Elizabeth Roundy left a polygamous church rife with abuse in 2020, taking her children with her. Four out of five of them have since disappeared
Child brides: A campaign starts to ban underage marriages in California
You have to be 18 to get divorced in California, but there’s no minimum age to get married. Child marriage survivors protested at the state Capitol.
Unconventional Cardinal: A transfer student’s journey from child marriage to Stanford’s campus
A child bride at 17 and single mom in her thirties, Galaise joined the 2024 transfer class as the cohort’s oldest member and the only undergraduate residing in graduate family housing where she lives with Eli, who currently attends Escondido Elementary School.
Child marriage remains legal in the United States as global leaders backtrack on gender equality
The rollback on women’s rights is accelerating as world leaders fail to act against child marriage, gender-based violence, forced labour, and human trafficking.
Former Child Bride Now Fights to Abolish Underage Marriage: 'America’s Dirty Little Secret'
At 15, Genevieve Meyer was forced to wed a 43-year-old man — now she’s determined to prevent other women from having to endure ‘the nightmare’ she survived
‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states – and the people who want to keep it legal
The country has seen hundreds of thousands of child marriages since 2000. As activists push for new laws, an unlikely cohort stands in their way