"Once upon a Time with My Friends, He Came and Kidnapped me." How Forced Early Marriage Destroys the Lives of Girls in Central Asia.

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Pre-birth marriage is a traditional custom in Afghanistan, particularly in Ghor Province, in which girls are married off to boys before they are born. According to this custom, known as “wording” in the local Ghor dialect, a father agrees before his daughter is born that her daughter will marry a boy from the opposite family, and if the girl later refuses to marry, the girl’s family is required to pay a large sum to terminate the contract. The p…

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Two years ago, Nigora stopped going to school because she was married, and she was 17 years old, and the fate of thousands of girls in Central Asia seems to be changing from school exams to "no one" (the religious marriage ceremony), to higher and sometimes secondary education, to heavy domestic work. Their families explain early marriage to their daughters in their desire to live up to tradition, preserve "honour." Very often, there are broken …