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While the typical marriage age keeps rising, it remains young in these states The age at which a person decides to get married is less dependent on a specific time frame and has more to do with ...
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. In that case, Obergefell v. Hodges, the justices ruled that it was ...
New Hampshire is the latest state to ban child marriage, but it is still legal in other parts of the country.
Wyoming is one of only eight states without a minimum age for marriage. That could soon change.
After years of working unsuccessfully to ban child marriage in Michigan, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reintroducing legislation that would raise the state’s minimum marriage age to 18.
Charts 1–9 showcase some of the effects that marriage, age, the postponement of fertility, and the age structure of the population have on the fertility rate in the United States.
Virginia lawmakers move to set marriage age minimum to 18 The bill awaits action by the governor and would bar minors from getting married — something activists say leads to abuses.
Child marriage at any age is still legal in California. Our state must pass legislation making it legal for adults age 18 and up to marry.
The New Hampshire House passed a bill Thursday raising the legal age of marriage to 18, sending the legislation to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk after years of advocacy.Senate Bill 359, which passed ...
Viral social media posts that claim child marriage is legal in 38 states are actually true. Most of those states only allow it in limited circumstances.
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