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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, […]
September 1, 2017
The Texas Senate has unanimously approved harsher penalties for female genital mutilation in the country’s second-largest state. The […]
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
It’s a hot and humid day, but the kids are buzzing. As they pile out of a coach […]
August 28, 2017
Earlier this year, a 7-year-old girl from Minnesota entered an examination room at a clinic just outside of […]
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
Since the violence in Charlottesville 10 days ago, when white supremacists left one young woman dead and 19 […]
August 24, 2017
At first, almost no one believed Fraidy Reiss when she said child marriage happens in the United States. […]
August 24, 2017
lmost all women aged 15 to 49 in the east African state of Somaliland have suffered female genital […]