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, ...
Oklahoma has banned child marriage, becoming the 17th US state to do so. Senate Bill 504, which faced Republican opposition, sets the minimum marriage age at 18 without exceptions.
It’s been a decade since the US Supreme Court recognised a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in the landmark case, Obergefell v Hodges. The US Supreme Court will meet today to consider a ...