Wednesday, March 11, 2009

44% of India's brides are under-age...

Nearly half of Indian brides wed before they are 18-years-old, the legal age for marriage since 1978, a survey by the Lancet medical magazine says. 

Carried out from a geographical and social cross-section of Indian society, the survey says that a total of 44.5% were married by the time they were 18. 

It says that women who were child brides were far more at risk of having unwanted pregnancies. 

Marriage at a young age carries grave health consequences, it says. More...

See also:

  1. I'm 14, a virgin and I'm for sale: do you want to buy me?
  2. Underage girls and the modelling/porn industry...
  3. 60-year-old Saudi man "wins" 10-year-old child in a bet as bride...
  4. Poverty and baby brides: this is terribly sad.

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