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Although it has decreased significantly, in Asian households until a few years ago, a lot of emphasis was placed on the ...
In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...
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, ...
When Ruth Johnson was 14 years old, she was swinging in the backyard when she suddenly heard her dad call her into the house.
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 ...
When Kary was just 13, her parents tried to force her into marriage with a boy in her village in Cambodia. Kary, a proud Indigenous woman from the Praov ethnic group in Ratanakiri province, refused.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 16, Courtney Stodden's marriage to a 51-year-old actor sent shockwaves across the country. Now, at age 31, Stodden says she ...
Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...