Banning child marriage is un-Islamic, Pakistan’s government was told after setting 18 as the minimum age to marry. Its Child Marriage Restraint Bill, unanimously passed by both houses of the ...

All New England states now ban child marriage after Maine became the 14th state to to do so on May 6. In 2025, the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire was raised to 18. It was the result of ...

According to the video, both children were 16 years old. As far as I know, child marriage is illegal. I wonder, can the father be penalized for facilitating this kind of marriage? The State has a duty ...

Ambedkar had argued in his pioneering 1916 Columbia lecture on ‘Castes in India’ that endogamous marriage — marriage ... to bear more than a single child in his life.” ...

"The Indian population is endogamous. We find population ... in the journal Nature reveals that consanguineous marriage increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirths, neonatal mortality, and ...

Background Irish Travellers are an endogamous, nomadic, ethnic minority population mostly ... Irish Travellers practise consanguinity with cousin marriage rates approximating 71% of unions; first ...

The Jewish-led group Unchained at Last was part of a coalition advocating for the law. New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy ...

Less than three months after New Hampshire officially banned child marriage, the House passed an exception for people in the military. In June of 2024, then Gov. Chris Sununu passed a bill that ...