AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
September 9, 2017
It seems unthinkable that children are still getting married in 21st-century America. Yet, it’s happening in every corner of the […]
September 9, 2017
Wedlocked is a Teen Vogue series about child marriage in the United States that examines the history of the practice and […]
September 1, 2017
At 14, Donna Pollard’s anger and outbursts landed her in a youth behavioral facility in Southern Indiana. There, […]
August 31, 2017
Child marriage isn’t just a practice that victimizes girls in poor countries. As this blog has previously reported, it’s […]
August 31, 2017
An Indian television soap opera that shows a 10-year-old boy married to a 19-year-old woman has been pulled […]
August 31, 2017
Loopholes in state laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the […]
August 31, 2017
Maryland’s marriage laws have several “loopholes” which can make forced or coerced child marriage more likely, according to […]
August 28, 2017
Every day, 41,000 girls marry before they are 18 years old. That’s 15 million girls every year. While child […]
August 28, 2017
Fatima’s Taliban husband was so controlling that he refused to allow her to bathe and threatened to burn […]
August 24, 2017
At first, almost no one believed Fraidy Reiss when she said child marriage happens in the United States. […]
August 24, 2017
UNICEF says more than one in 10 girls in the Dominican Republic are married or living with a […]
August 21, 2017
State Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, has a history of protecting children through state legislation, passing bills requiring […]
August 21, 2017
El Salvador and Guatemala have joined a trend in clamping down on child marriage by passing legislation that […]
August 17, 2017
Seasonal employment, child marriage and school drop out rate are among the reasons making women and girls vulnerable […]
August 17, 2017
The term ‘child marriage’ is used to describe a legal or customary union between two people, of whom […]