12 Million Girls Become Brides Every Year. Most of Them Are Still Children When They Give Birth.

Every three seconds, somewhere on this planet, a girl becomes a bride. Not a woman. A girl. She might be 14. She might be 12. She might live in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia. She might live in California.

That last part stops people cold. It stopped me.

I have spent more than four decades in courtrooms across this country, representing families, fighti…