Child marriage is still a major issue on various places like Niger, Central African Republic, in lots of places in India, and many others. Child marriage is usually forced by their families, by the reason that it might help their family economically or is by tradition passed generation to generation. Girls usually between 10-17 years old are obligated to marry. Girls at eleven marry to men much older than them, adults. Others marry with a guy around their age. These young kids have to drop out of school and give up on their dreams of a successful career, most get out in middle school so they can focus on their families and how to be an average wife. This also prevents early pregnancies, females at such a young age are already found with the average of two kids, this can also lead to early death of the mom during birth or neurological or physical problems with the baby.Child marriage adds to gender inequality girls should be able to decide whom to marry and when to have kids. Some are sexually assaulted by their husbands or verbally, physically or emotionally violated.
On many TED talks we see cases of girls which stood up for their rights, they fought to have a proper education, marry who and when they want, but still a lot of other younger girls are afraid to stand up for themselves. In one TED talk (i'll link it below) a women says that they have to go through an initiation process which means to lose their virginity at such a young age and have the risk of getting pregnant. It's really sad to see how many girls suffer with this, just because you don't see it often or it doesn't happen to you does not mean it doesn't happen to others. More than 700 million girls alive today were married before the age of 18.
I think that this article is very intresting and well written. The pictures are good choosen also if I think that you don't have to post so many pictures. But overall I is good
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