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We found that some 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018: 232,474 based on marriage-certificate data plus 64,559 based on estimates ( Table 1 ). A few children were as young as 10 years when they married, but of those for whom age information was available, nearly all—96%—were aged 16 or 17 years.
A theory of change laid out by Girls Not Brides, with input from a range of organizations, presents a broad overview of the vision of a world without child marriage, and describes four programmatic strategies to address child marriage: empowering girls, mobilizing families and communities, providing services, and establishing and implementing laws
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Oct 10, 2023 · Results. In total, 34 eligible prevalence articles and 14 trend articles were included in the study with data from 127,945 participants. The prevalence of child marriage ranged between 1.8% to 90.85%. In most studies, the trend of child marriage was decreasing.
Mar 29, 2021 · For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health campaigns refer to marriage below this threshold as ‘child marriage’ and increasingly aim for its universal eradication, citing its apparent negative wellbeing consequences. Here, we outline and evaluate four alternative hypotheses for the ...
- Susan B. Schaffnit, David W. Lawson
- 2021
Apr 27, 2018 · Out of eight interviewed couples, one was married without having any children, two couples married within the first year of birth, four couples married after the first year and one couple married after the completion of child bearing. Subsequently, I performed a vertical analysis that cuts straight through each interview in each group.
- Karin Jarnkvist
- 2019
Apr 23, 2018 · Updated: 11:25 PM EDT April 24, 2018. TAMPA, Fla. -- Just last month, Florida passed a new law that prohibits most child marriage but some say it's not enough. Believe it or not, child marriage is ...
Jul 17, 2020 · In this study, we synthesized findings from qualitative studies to identify the key factors that influence child marriage. We used a meta-ethnographic approach coupled with thematic synthesis. We searched literature from nine databases, which were in English language, covering areas in public health, psychology, and social science between 2008 and 2018. Twelve studies were included in the ...
