News and Press Releases: Inspirational Motivational Speaker Dr. Trevicia Williams

Just Ahead of  the Megyn Kelly Today Show: Moms Talk Being There for Family and Self

As one of  Today’s Parenting Team’s contributor, Dr. Trevicia Williams talks discovering fulfillment in work without compromising family’s wellbeing. TODAY’s Megyn Kelly sat down for a frank discussion with five incredible women at Feedstore BBQ in Dallas, Texas.

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Teen Vogue: Wedlocked is a Teen Vogue series about child marriage in the United States that examines the history of the practice and its modern reality, as all 50 states have laws with provisions that that allow people under 18 to marry

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Good Housekeeping: I Was Forced Into Marriage at Age 14.  Thousands of American girls are married against their own will every year. Child bride survivor Trevicia Williams helped change the law in her state — and others are working to do the same.

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Dallas Morning News: An unwilling bride at 14, this Dallas woman helped outlaw child marriages in Texas “You could hardly call Williams “lucky,” but she’s remarkable in many respects. After three miserable years, she freed herself from the marriage she never wanted, took her baby daughter and never looked back.”

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The Houston Chronicle: Former Texas child bride changes marriage laws in state thanks to testimony   Trevicia Williams was Texas child bride at the age of 14 in 1983 and through her testimony, among others, state lawmakers have officially made it illegal to marry under the age of 18. Winning against the odds of domestic violence, child abuse, teen pregnancy, interrupted education, teen motherhood, early marriage….

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Texas Has The Second-Highest Rate Of Youth Marriage In The U.S.   As of 2014, approximately 57,800 youth ages 15 to 17 were married in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. Forced marriages for minors are more common in the southern United States than the rest of the country. Pew data shows Texas’ marriage rate for 15- to 17-year-olds is second only to West Virginia.

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Former child bride lobbies for bill to save others from her nightmare. Trevicia Williams was 14 years old when her mother forced her to marry a man 12 years her senior. … She said she never received an answer from her mother on why she was forced into the marriage.

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Research Shows Pattern to Mother Daughter Battles:  Human Behavior Expert Debuts New Book to Help Mothers Choose and Win Quarrels

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