Child marriage remains legal in most states, many of which allow children as young as 15 or 16 years old to get married. A handful of states have no age requirements at all for marriage.

Maine increased the marriage age to 16 in 2020, and lawmakers approved a plan raising the age to 17 three years later. Before 2020, the state allowed a parent to marry off a child of any age.

New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy by a coalition including Unchained At Last, a Jewish-led organization that opposes ...

"Child marriage is too dangerous to be permitted," Rosenthal said. "The practice should be ended completely in Texas with no exceptions to abuse or exploit. House Bill 168 will accomplish this." ...

On Thursday, the NH Senate voted to kill a House-passed exception for those in the military. All New England states now ban child marriage after Maine became the 14th state to to do so on May 6.

Unchained At Last, a nonprofit dedicated to ending child marriage, ranked Missouri 16th out of all 50 states in the amount of child marriages per capita. Unchained At Last also found that nearly ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Senate Bill, SB156, an act to increase the minimum age for marriage, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 4-2 vote.

The House Children and Family Law Committee split 7-7 on separate motions to recommend passing or killing the narrow carve-out to the child marriage ban that went into effect Jan. 1.

Marriage would be banned for anyone under 18 under a law that advanced out of the Missouri Senate Thursday. Under current Missouri law, anyone under 16 is prohibited from getting married. But 16 and ...

The CII discussed the anti-child marriage bill passed by the National Assembly on May 16 and by the Senate on May 19. The bill defines a child as anyone under 18 years of age of either sex, and ...