12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

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 ...

I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story, Lifetime’s newest true story true-crime movie, premieres tonight, Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. You can watch for free by streaming ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.