She doesn’t remember signing a marriage certificate, but does have a copy of it. “It does have my little child’s signature on it, so I must have at some point,” she said.

Sasha Issenberg, author of The Engagement, a history of marriage equality, says he doesn't see the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges being overturned anytime soon.

Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., but a handful of states have moved to ban the practice in recent years, including Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.

Don’t let the cynics fool you: Marriage tends to be correlated with much higher levels of happiness, according to new data. But does that mean you need to be married to be happy?

In the decade since the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Obergefell, public support for same-sex marriage has continued to climb, driven in large part by support from Democrat and Independent ...

More Americans are marrying later in life, if they marry at all. NPR's Michel Martin talks with sociology professor Susan Brown about shifting attitudes toward marriage in American society.

What's more, as marriage rates are now returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, increased divorce rates may logically follow.

A Harvard professor revealed the No. 1 thing every marriage should have for it to last a lifetime. Since superficial things like looks, money and chemistry can fade over time — the one thing ...

My strong advice is to obsess less about your career and to think a lot more about marriage. Please respect the truism that if you have a great career and a crappy marriage you will be unhappy ...

Marriage was considered too serious a matter to be based on such a fragile emotion. "If love could grow out of it, that was wonderful," said Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History.

Marriage proponents often contrast the stable relationship patterns of the college educated with the instability of the less educated, but a bachelor’s degree is hardly a guarantee of a ring.

Others fear marriage in a larger sense, and opt to live together instead of tying the knot at all. Even people who have no personal experience with divorce (say, of their parents or friends) are ...