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 ...

A new report by UNICEF warns that the number of child brides in Africa could more than double to 310 million in the next 35 years. Though the rates of child marriage are on the decline in most parts ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by the ...

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 ...