In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record ...

Dibrugarh: A special campaign titled, ‘Where Is Your Missing Friend?’, was launched in Charaideo district on Wednesday as part of a broader initiative.

It was during an afternoon in June 2025 that Monija Khatun, a student in class 11, decided to dial the helpline number 1098. She was reporting the wedding of a 14-year-old classmate that had been ...

Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.” Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since ...

As Hollywood Monday remembered the life and work of filmmaker Rob Reiner, who was found dead with stab wounds Sunday, his legacy as a political advocate and activist was also honored across the state.

On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the Child Marriage Prohibition Bill with a majority vote. The new law sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for both males and females, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin have proposed legislation to eliminate child marriage. The bill would remove the exception allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent. Similar bills ...

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, ...

Dear Eric: My husband of 15 years suddenly tells me he fathered a daughter outside of our marriage. She is 5 years old. He wants to bring the child to me to be her mother and bring her up as my own.

Dear Eric: I completed a yoga teacher training (YTT), which I only shared with family. During the YTT, the studio posted pics on social media, and I was in one pic. Within hours, Sue, a coworker, sent ...