Sherry Johnson, just 11 years old at the time, stood in a Florida courtroom in 1971 wearing what she later described as a wedding dress. She was about to be married against her will to a church deacon ...

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.

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, ...