Despite a widespread consensus that marriage should be banned for minors, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice ...

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 2022, Congress voted to repeal the 1998 Defense of Marriage Act, thus installing some recognition of same-sex marriage in the federal code. More precisely, the legislation requires that all states ...

What a difference a few months make. Just before Donald Trump returned to office in January, gay marriage was thought to be settled law in the United States. After all, it was only 10 years ago that ...

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, ...

Will the U.S. Supreme Court torpedo gay marriage in its next term, which begins October 6? SCOTUS could use Kim Davis to do so. But it should not. The Alphabet people demand that Americans swallow an ...

In 2004 the first legal same-sex marriage in America took place in city hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. President George W. Bush condemned the development, as did Democratic politicians. At the time ...