With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the world.

New Hampshire is the latest state to ban child marriage, but it is still legal in other parts of the country.

The raw data are not very encouraging: Marital satisfaction is falling as marriage age rises, according to statistics collected over the past half century by the General Social Survey that I analyzed.

Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have opposed such bans, saying they could undermine minors' rights ...

A steady rise in marriage age The typical age of marriage among Americans began trending upward as far back as World War II. When war broke out in 1939, and men went to serve in the military ...

‘My entire childhood was taken from me’: Advocates push for ban on child marriage after bill stalls in statehouse Planned Parenthood, ACLU oppose bill that would set minimum marriage age to 18 ...

Republican Lawmaker Says 12 Is Not Too Young to Get Married In an argument against trans youth, Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon said he knows people "who have been married at age 12" and "they're ...

A new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.

Washington lawmakers didn't meet a deadline to move a bill that would have raised the minimum marriage age to 18 in all cases.