Forced to marry at 12 years old, sources told IranWire her husband began physically and emotionally abusing her after she ...

Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

In northern Iran, Goli Kouhkan was just 12 years old when she was forced to marry her cousin. By 13, she had a child — and years of abuse followed. Now, at only 25, she faces execution after a ...

Despite international efforts to eliminate child marriage, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to have high ...

A former child bride allegedly involved in the killing of her abusive husband faces execution in Iran unless she can raise ...

Courtney Stodden, who married ex-husband Doug Hutchinson at age 16 with her parents' permission, tells PEOPLE about ...

Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old woman on death row in Iran, faces execution for killing her abusive husband unless she raises £80,000 in blood money by December, according to human rights ...

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The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliché, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ...

From Shikoku to Seattle The Tsuyoshi and Yayoi Inouye Family History. By Geraldine Shu NAP Contributor. Tsuyoshi Inouye was born and raised in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in a rural ...

MADISON – Rock County legislators introduced legislation on Tuesday to end child marriage in Wisconsin. Sen. Mark Spreitzer, ...