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Nepal’s government has pledged to end all child marriage by 2030. This should also apply to marriages being chosen by pre-teens and teens, since the consequences of child marriage affect girls whether they choose marriage or are forced into it.
In “A Day in May,” journalist Charlie Bird interviews those impacted by legalizing same-sex marriage in Ireland. Here, Rebecca Murphy recounts her experience of coming out.
The first legislative victory just came in Virginia and three other states have introduced bills. Children who can’t legally vote, buy cigarettes, drink alcohol and, in some instances, get a tattoo, are entering marriage contracts. It must stop.
In India, there are towns and villages with a drastically higher number of men compared to women. The northern state of Haryana has the worst gender ratio in the country: 879 women for every 1000 men.
Divorced women who deferred their education to put husbands through school or moved multiple times to enable their husbands to move up the career ladder are at special risk. So are those who gave up jobs to raise children.
After Massachusetts approved such unions in 2004, Catherine Reid wondered about where marriage would lead. “There is no model for how two women go through this process,” she says in this excerpt from “Falling Into Place,” “just steps such as proving that neither one of us has syphilis.”
Women continue to choose to get married, despite feminism and our economic freedom, says Debora L. Spar in this excerpt from “Wonder Women: Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection.” Better health and wealth appear to be two benefits from this union.
Sex segregation can also make it hard for Muslim youth to get to know each other, leading to higher interfaith marriages, says a marriage counselor in this excerpt from Naomi Schaefer Riley’s “‘Til Faith Do Us Part.”
With an eye to lowering India’s high maternal mortality, a national ad campaign and one state’s mass wedding program shifts the longstanding sanitation push to men. “Men control the household economy,” says one health activist.
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Sex trafficking and exploitative employers are serious hazards. But a May 14 report also finds that families free daughters from early marriage when households depend on them for remittances.