By: Heather Comun The Daily Record ANNAPOLIS — Advocates returned to the State House on Thursday to renew their push to change a law allowing individuals as young as 15 to be married in Maryland, Read more…
By: Sean Whooley and Alex Mann Delmarva Now Bills advancing through the Maryland General Assembly this week touched on adultery, child marriage and more. Bill would decriminalize adultery Adultery is illegal in Maryland and is a Read more…
Report by Pat Warren, WJZ The organization “Moms Demand Action” is calling on Maryland lawmakers to prevent convicted domestic abusers from owning guns. The moms are demanding action from lawmakers to prevent domestic abusers from owning Read more…
By: Michelle Yu The Baltimore Sun According to a 2012 report by the United Nations Population Fund, one in three girls in developing countries outside of China will probably be married before they are 18, and Read more…
By Whitney Wild and Eliana Block WUSA At fifteen years old, a teenager legally can’t buy beer, can’t enlist in the US military, or vote; but, in the state of Maryland they can marry. Between Read more…
By Melissa Jeltsen Huffpost Loopholes in state laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the practice puts young people at risk of serious, lifelong harm. More than 200,000 Read more…
By: Heather Cobun Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer Maryland’s marriage laws have several “loopholes” which can make forced or coerced child marriage more likely, according to a report released Wednesday by the Tahirih Justice Center. Read more…
By Chris Baynes The Independent More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. Three 10-year-old girls and an 11-year-old boy were among the youngest to Read more…
By Anjali Tsui Frontline As a girl growing up in California, Nicole handled pet snakes, bullfrogs and iguanas. She dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. But when she was 16 years old, she says she was Read more…
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