For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations
today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health campaigns refer to marriage …

Global health studies typically characterise adolescent marriage as a fundamental risk to
female wellbeing. In contrast, ethnographic research among communities 'at risk'identifies …

Background The concept of 'child marriage'in global health distinguishes ostensibly harmful
from healthy ages to marry at a universally-applied threshold of 18-years. With intensifying …

Global health interventions increasingly target the abolishment of 'child marriage'(marriage
under 18 years, hereafter referred to as 'early marriage'). Guided by human behavioural …

While American foreign policy deems child marriage a “human rights abuse” and calls on
other countries to eliminate it [1], many Americans remain unaware of the prevalence of child …

Early marriage remains a central concern among reproductive and sexual rights advocates
worldwide. Mainstream researchers have often focused on the negative effects of early …

Background Studies in low-and middle-income regions suggest that child marriage (< 18
years) is a risk factor for poor reproductive outcomes among women. However, in high …

Abstract The United States and 193 other nations have pledged to end child marriage, which
is widely considered a violation of basic human rights, by 2030 under the United Nations …

US “child marriage”—marriage including at least one person under the age of 18—is legal
and practiced in 44 states. In this article, I map the existing literature on child marriage and …

ABSTRACT In the United States, the marriage of minors remains legal in 40 of 50 states
despite evidence that the practice often leads to the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse …