Child Marriage in India

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MitwahSenior Member

Instead of focusing on their education, teenage girls in Malda, a border town in West Bengal, are focused on the fear of being forced to marry without their consent. VICE India host Makepeace Sitlhou meets schoolgirls, Priyanka, Ismoarah, Moushumi, and Masuda, to understand how they navigate through life in a society where the sole purpose of a girl's existence seems to be marriage.

Child Marriage in India: Teenage Girls Forced to Marry - YouTube

4/25/2412:09 PM

MitwahSenior Member

How can the mothers, who went through the same traumatic experience allow this especially WANT this for their daughters ???

4/25/2412:13 PM

cainTired old hippie

This is another of those customs that needs to be abolished.

4/25/247:57 PM

MitwahSenior Member

Not only girls, boys are also victims of child marriage.

4/25/2411:17 PM

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