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"Child marriage "can end it so easily with this simple, common sense legislation," Reiss continues. "And yet, states across the U.S., most U.S. states right now, 38 U.S. states, are resisting that." ...

Lawmakers in 2017 took a major step to end most child marriages. However, emancipated teenagers 16 and older can get married.

Texas legislators are considering a bill that would eliminate the remaining legal pathway for minors to marry in the state. House Bill 168, introduced by Democrat Texas state Representative Jon ...

Since then, she has been advocating to end child marriage. Nearly 300,000 children, some as young as 10, were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018, according to Unchained At Last, an ...

At the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, survivor of child marriage and internationally-recognized expert on the issue Naila Amin advocates for federal law banning marriage for children ...

She helped write a bill successfully passed in Kentucky in 2018 putting an end to child marriage through parental consent, but getting it passed was far from smooth. Donna says one of the biggest ...

The Texas Legislature is poised to end the controversial practice of child marriage in the Lone Star State with a bill the House passed Wednesday. House Bill 168, authored by Rep. Jon Rosenthal ...

In February, Asm. Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine, introduced Assembly Bill 2924 to finally end the gruesome act of state-sanctioned child marriage in California. Last month, Assembly Judiciary ...

File photo: Advocates and child marriage survivors gather on the steps of Massachusetts' State House to call for an end to child marriages in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 22, 2021.