‘I Was Married at 14 to a Man 3 Times My Age, Now I Work to End Child Marriages in Bihar’
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‘I Was Married at 14 to a Man 3 Times My Age, Now I Work to End Child Marriages in Bihar’
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in 2024. The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 reports that every two in five women aged 20-24 in Bihar were married before reaching the legal minimum age of 18 years. But what are the real consequences for girls who are married off at such a young age? “They are traumatised for life,” says Roshni Perween, a victim of child marriage herself. Hailing from a small village of Simalbar…
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