Jan. 28—A former military bride from San Diego came to Concord Tuesday to urge the New Hampshire Legislature to reject a proposal to allow 17-year-olds to marry if one member of the couple is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract CONTEXT: Marriage before the age of 18, commonly referred to as child marriage, is legal under varying conditions across the United States.

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

On January 1, New Hampshire officially implemented a comprehensive ban on child marriage, setting a stringent age limit of 18 for marriage under all circumstances. However, the legislation has ...

New Hampshire's child marriage ban went into effect on Wednesday, making it the 13th state to require people to be 18 years old to get married. Child marriage remains legal in most states, many of ...

Do you know that about 12 million girls experience child marriage every year, and Africa is said to have one of the highest numbers of child marriages? This data is from the United Nations Population ...