Although it has decreased significantly, in Asian households until a few years ago, a lot of emphasis was placed on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Courtney Stodden was just 16 years old when she became a tabloid fixture after marrying a much, much older man in 2011. In the 15 years since she first made headlines, Stodden has run the 21st-century ...
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 ...
Part of Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines” series, a collection of films based on real people, “I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story” follows the life of a 16-year-old starlet whose ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centres in Scandinavia, triggering a furore about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage.