child brides
Girls forced matrimony
Child brides are girls married before adulthood, typically before age eighteen.
The practice persists in parts of the world where poverty, tradition, or family arrangements lead to early marriage.
The term carries strong negative connotations, highlighting the youth and vulnerability of girls in such unions: Organizations work to end the practice of child brides in developing nations.
- minorScale with lowered third
- age of consentMinimum years for lawful agreement
- legal ageStatutory adulthood threshold
- marriageFormal union between partners
- unionJoining into one
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- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- ancient sexualityfertility rites, fertility cults, sacred marriage, sex magic, erotic art
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