12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

A self-proclaimed religious “prophet” declared 20 women and children as his “wives” while leading a yearslong sexual abuse ring, according to federal prosecutors. Now he’ll spend the next five decades ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story, Lifetime’s newest true story true-crime movie, premieres tonight, Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. You can watch for free by streaming ...

A woman who was once a child bride in Afghanistan escaped, along with her infant son, and found her way years later to ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.