A bill banning child marriage in Oklahoma became law on May 13 without Governor Kevin Stitt’s signature.

The Texas House Subcommittee on Family and Fiduciary Relationships took testimony on House Bill 168 on April 7, 2025. A bill to ban child marriage in Texas has passed the state’s House of ...

Colorado was poised to become the 17th state to ban child marriage, but the proposal has since been rolled back at the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Senate Bill, SB156, an act to increase the minimum age for marriage, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 4-2 vote. Republican Senators Tom Pischke and Tamara ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Republican Sen. John Carley’s comments on the Senate floor have been clarified. KELOLAND News has asked for Carley to further clarify ...

Do 9,000 minors marry each year in California – or do 15? A discrepancy in data has contributed to the statehouse stalemate over Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris’s AB2924, a bill which would remove ...

Child marriage is not a tradition we can afford to romanticise. It is a violation of childhood, consent and opportunity. Defined as any formal or informal union where one or both parties are under 18, ...