Michael Bachelard is a senior writer and former deputy editor and investigations editor of The Age. He has worked in Canberra ...

Even in Africa's most populous country, attitudes about family size oare starting to shift. The change in thinking is most striking in Nigeria's Muslim and conservative north.

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As a young mother, Tareena Shakil fled with her toddler from the UK to Syria and joined Islamic State. Now she’s giving dating advice on TikTok. How did she get here?

Helena Ashon* felt pressured to have a second child. Here, she reveals the isolating taboo of wishing she wasn’t now six ...

A MARRIED At First bride has bravely opened up on her history of abuse in a sad new interview. The E4 show star, 35, spoke candidly about years of maltreatment and her constant mission to “prove I am ...

The Kerala unit of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has filed a complaint with the Kerala state Director General of Police demanding an investigation into the recent interfaith marriage of viral Kumbh ...

If she could go back in time, she never would have married him. Nou uses a walker at her house and a wheelchair when she goes anywhere else, and her family cares for her everyday needs. She believes ...

When 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

In 2014, the County Clerk's Office in San Diego County issued a marriage license to a 16-year-old who was marrying a 25-year-old. In 2015, the clerk signed off on a marriage license for a 33-year-old ...

We are on the countdown to Ramadan, only a month away as the preceding month of Sha’ban arrived on January 20. Sha’ban is the eighth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar. I consider the month of ...