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With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...

When Ruth Johnson was 14 years old, she was swinging in the backyard when she suddenly heard her dad call her into the house.

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...

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, ...

The teen bride at the center of this story keeps hearing the same line from strangers online: what happened to her is legal, but it still feels wrong. Her critics insist they are not accusing her ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Every year, nearly 12 million girls, one in every five, are married before the age of 18. Many face poverty, abuse, limited ...