Child marriage remains legal in most U.S. states, leaving minors open to abuse and vulnerabilities within the legal system, advocates say. Only 12 states currently have a minimum marriage age of ...

The kids also lack two key advantages their mothers had. First is a mental template of a stable family. Most Baby Boomer and Gen X women who had children out of wedlock had grown up in intact families ...

According to the Census Bureau, the average never-married 44-year-old woman had just 1.15 children in 2020. The average ever-married woman of that same age had almost double that number at 2.17.

In England, until the 18th century, surnames were fluid, and it was common for children to have their mother’s or grandmother’s last name, said Deborah Anthony, a professor of legal studies at ...

I’ll tell you what I told this mother who has children from an earlier marriage: Treat your separate property as separate. That’s why the law does not call such property marital property.

Either way, for most people, getting married is the first step to having children — and marriage is becoming less frequent. Twenty-five percent of 40-year-olds have never married, according to a ...

Dear Eric, I have been in a seven-year relationship with my partner. We do not have any children together and we are not legally married. I am 36 and he is 39 and I am at the point where I would ...