Learn Florida’s age-of-consent rules, the Romeo and Juliet law, and why underage victims and families cannot drop charges.

A bill that would make it illegal to issue marriage licenses to anyone under the age of 18 in California is now headed to Gov ...

California is set to eliminate child marriage by establishing a minimum marriage age of eighteen, closing aloophole that allowed minors to marry with parental consent and court approval.

Advocacy groups have fought for the legislation since 2018. California is one of three states that has no minimum marriage ...

California is one of three states that allow children of any age to get married if a parent or guardian signs off.

In what it called “a first-of-its-kind lawsuit,” the Justice Department has sued a school district in Kansas over its ...

California's Adam's Law comes as states expand AI chatbot rules for children, with new restrictions spreading nationwide.

Two legislative proposals, designed to prohibit child marriage and enhance legal protections for individuals facing coerced ...

States are moving to ban all marriages under the age of 18. There are arguments from the science of cognition for this ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in February that age verification would be more effective if it was handled by makers of ...

AB 1267 is one signature away from ending child marriage in CA after nearly a decade of failed legislative efforts and ...