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...
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