Despite a cultural narrative that singles lead happier lives, married Americans report higher rates of happiness than their single counterparts. A strong marriage is actually "the number one predictor ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Courtney Kosnik’s marriage lasted until she was 40 years old. She was married just after her junior year in high school, and she says the ban on child marriage was long overdue ...

UNICEF USA is working with partners including Unchained at Last to end child marriage in the United States. Eleven U.S. states have already passed legislation banning marriage before the age of 18, ...

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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 ...

From 2000 to 2021, over 40,000 minors were wed in Texas, granting it the dubious title of the state with the most child ...

There are officially a dozen states where child marriage has been banned. Virginia joined Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The U.S. government frequently advocates for an end to child marriage around the ...

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 the ...

In June of 2024, then Gov. Chris Sununu passed a bill that raised the legal age of marriage to 18. On Thursday, the House approved an exception to the new law, passing a bill that makes 17 the age of ...

Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. After 13-year-old Zemzem was abducted in southern Ethiopia, quick-thinking members of a UNICEF-supported youth group ...

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