Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'

SB Schaffnit, DW Lawson - Social Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Exploring the consequences of early marriage: a conventional content analysis

J Yoosefi Lebni, M Solhi… - … : The Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Early marriage is one of the most important social issues for young women and can have
many consequences. The present study aimed to explore the consequences of early …

Sociodemographic factors and early marriage among women in Bangladesh, Ghana and Iraq: An illustration from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey

AAS Saleheen, S Afrin, S Kabir, MJ Habib, MA Zinnia… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Early marriage is a form of violation of child rights to grow and develop. The Sustainable
Development Goals had included early marriage in target 5.3, aiming to eliminate by 2030 …

The pitfalls of modelling the effects of COVID-19 on gender-based violence: lessons learnt and ways forward

M Lokot, A Bhatia, S Heidari, A Peterman - BMJ global health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Since early 2020, global stakeholders have highlighted the significant gendered
consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increases in the risk of gender-based …

[HTML][HTML] What influences girls' age at marriage in Burkina Faso and Tanzania? Exploring the contribution of individual, household, and community level factors

C Misunas, A Erulkar, L Apicella, T Ngô… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose This comparative study explores the connections between potential drivers of child
marriage among girls at the individual, household, and community levels. It provides insight …

The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa

M DiGiuseppe, R Haer - Journal of peace research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Child marriage is a fundamental violation of human rights. It hinders progress towards
development and public health goals. In this study, we argue that armed conflict plays an …

Wedding amidst war? Armed conflict and female teen marriage in Azerbaijan

O Torrisi - European journal of population, 2022 - Springer
Does armed conflict influence female teen marriage? Despite increasing attention to early
marriage, its drivers and consequences, quantitative research on whether teen unions are …

Rural entrepreneurship and the context: navigating contextual barriers through women's groups

MA Semkunde, T Elly, G Charles… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine how women's groups help women to navigate context-
related barriers to their engagement in rural entrepreneurship. The paper combines the …

Conceptualizing “agency” within child marriage: Implications for research and practice

M Lokot, M Sulaiman, A Bhatia, N Horanieh… - Child Abuse & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The concept of child 'agency'has become increasingly important for
international child-centric organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs) and United …

Parent–offspring conflict unlikely to explain 'child marriage'in northwestern Tanzania

SB Schaffnit, A Hassan, M Urassa… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Approximately 40% of women in sub-Saharan Africa marry before their eighteenth birthday.
Within the international development sector, this phenomenon is referred to as 'child …