1. The Issue of Child Marriage
In Ashkenazi communities in the Middle Ages girls were married off very young in the Jewish community. ... In Mali, the female:male ratio of marriage before age 18 is 72:1; in Kenya, 21:1 The various UN-commissioned reports indicate that in many Sub-Saharan countries, there is a high incidence of marriage among girls younger than 15. ... In parts of Ethiopia and Nigeria numerous girls are married before the age of 15, some as young as the age of 7. ... According to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children-2009" report, 47% of India's women aged 20–24 were married befo...
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