In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World ...
The likely cause of the increasing number of child brides seen in the Palestinian territory is the displacement, poverty, and ...
(CNN) — Since 17-year-old Rehana was a child, she dreamt of supporting her family. An only child to parents struggling to make ends meet in Bangladesh, she says, “I always thought, I have no brother, ...
The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...
"Everything changed. I wasn't me anymore." They're portrayed as modern-day Romeos and Juliets -- young, star-crossed lovers in dramas like "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and reality shows ...
The teen bride at the center of this story keeps hearing the same line from strangers online: what happened to her is legal, but it still feels wrong. Her critics insist they are not accusing her ...
Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...
Santadevi told the court two years ago that she was married to 28-yr-old Saanval Ram who was nine-yrs-old at the time of their wedding 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of ...
Rosalyn Yellin, star of Netflix’s newest reality show, Members Only: Palm Beach, said she became a child bride when she moved to Israel to get away from her abusive father. The world was introduced to ...
Jind: Authorities in Jind district prevented two child marriages within 24 hours, underscoring the continuing prevalence of ...