https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5xqO4d2Jw
Es sind große Belastungen für junge Paare, wenn der Wunsch nach einem Kind nur mit ärztlicher Hilfe verwirklicht werden kann. Der Film zeigt, wie sich Betrof

https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/about-child-marriage/
It is rooted in gender inequality. Girls who formally marry or cohabit as if married before the age of 18 are more likely to have early pregnancies, experience dangerous complications in pregnancy and childbirth, acquire HIV, and experience domestic violence. Ending child marriage will improve the health of millions of girls, and their children.

https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Towards-Ending-Child-Marriage-report-2021.pdf
04 Towards Ending Child Marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress Introduction Global and regional overview Understanding trends Economic development and poverty reduction

https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Is_an_End_to_Child_Marriage_Within_Reach.pdf
with an increased risk of child marriage. In a year with an event of this severity, we would expect to see an 18 per cent increase in the prevalence of child marriage, equiv. UNICEF/UN0804174A SHIFTING GLOBAL BURDENThe distribution of the global population is shifting, with more than half of global growth betwe.

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/10-million-additional-girls-risk-child-marriage-due-covid-19
NEW YORK, 8 March 2021 - Ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF today. COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage - released on International Women's Day - warns that school closures

https://www.savethechildren.net/ending-child-marriage
Child marriage is a form and cause of gender-based violence that has profound and life-changing impacts on children, their families and subsequent generations. Married girls are denied the freedom to make critical decisions about their own lives. They are disproportionately at risk of an early end to their education, social isolation, ongoing

https://www.unfpa.org/child-marriage
Child marriage is a human rights violation. Despite laws against it, the practice remains widespread: Globally, one in every five girls is formally married or in an informal union, before reaching age 18. In the least developed countries, that number almost doubles - 36 per cent of girls are married before age 18, and 10 per cent of girls are

https://www.unfpa.org/child-marriage-frequently-asked-questions
There is good news: global child marriage rates are slowly falling. Around 2000, one in three women between the ages of 20 and 24 reported they had been married as children. In 2021, this number was just under one in five. Rates of child marriage before age 15 also fell, from 11 per cent in 2000 to 5 per cent in 2021.

https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/articles/less-talk-end-child-marriage-conflict/
Every year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That is nearly one girl every two seconds - married off too soon, and deprived of their fundamental rights to health, education and safety. But as the world becomes more unstable, child marriage could become an even bigger problem. A growing body of evidence shows that adolescent

https://www.unfpa.org/end-child-marriage
End Child Marriage. This report is a clarion call to decision makers, parents, communities and to the world to end child marriage. It documents the current scope, prevalence and inequities associated with child marriage and highlights that by 2020, some 142 million girls will be married by their 18th birthday if current trends continue.

https://www.populationmedia.org/the-latest/the-prevalence-of-child-marriage-in-underdeveloped-nations
Girls who marry before the age of 18 will earn 9% less over their lifetimes than those who marry as adults. Those lost earnings not only adversely impact individual families, but also entire nations where child marriage is prevalent. For example, that loss in earnings and productivity costs Nigeria approximately $7.6 billion every year.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage
An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF stated in its first in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5, or 23 million, were married before

https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/child-marriage-facts
Child marriage and forced marriage are violations of child protection and human rights. This widespread, harmful practice not only compromises a child's development; it also severely limits their health, wellness, and opportunities in life. And yet, globally, at least 12 million girls per year are married before the age of 18.

https://www.worldpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/WORLD_Fact_Sheet_Legal_Protection_Against_Child_Marriage_2015.pdf
March 2015Assessing National Action on Protection from Child MarriageOver 65 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights established that all people, egardless of sex, "are born free and equal in dignity and rights." A series of treaties in the following decades— most notably the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-marriage/
Marriage before the age of 18 is a fundamental violation of human rights. Many factors interact to place a child at risk of marriage, including poverty, the perception that marriage will provide 'protection', family honor, social norms, customary or religious laws that condone the practice, an inadequate legislative framework and the state of a country's civil registration system.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/09/749933002/these-twins-were-reunited-after-being-separated-under-chinas-one-child-policy
This was during the time of China's one-child policy. Demick found a family in rural China that had lost a child. After having twin girls, one was taken from them when she was a toddler. At the

https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/child-free-couples-thriving-without-kids
Many voluntarily child-free couples are loathe to sacrifice a rewarding, creative, and often spontaneous lifestyle that includes travel, entertainment, sports, and hobbies. In short, they cherish

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/one-child-nation-documentary-nanfu-wang-jialing-zhang/595894/
Amazon Studios. August 13, 2019. Early on in Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's new documentary, One Child Nation, an 84-year-old midwife is asked how many babies she has delivered throughout her

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-young-adults-without-children-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-say-they-want-to-be-parents-someday/
Among all adults ages 18 to 34, 20% say being married is extremely or very important for people to live a fulfilling life, and 22% say having children is extremely or very important. For comparison, 68% say the same about having a job or career they enjoy, and 62% say this about having close friends. There are no gender differences in young

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/598796873/inseparable-recounts-the-unusual-lives-of-conjoined-twins-chang-and-eng-bunker
GROSS: So one of the fascinating things about Chang and Eng is that after being exploited by the people who basically owned them, they negotiated their way out of the contract. They insisted on

https://ifstudies.org/blog/not-by-choice-unmarried-without-kids-and-the-truth-about-life-in-the-otherhood
At age 24, I packed up my life in Montreal, Canada, and moved to New York City to find that great Jewish man, the future father of my children. It was surely the best possible plan. This month marks 30 years in Manhattan, still single and no chance of becoming a mother. As the old Jewish adage goes: We plan; God laughs.

https://data.unicef.org/resources/covid-19-a-threat-to-progress-against-child-marriage/
March 7, 2021. Publications. The COVID-19 pandemic is profoundly affecting the everyday lives of girls: their physical and mental health, their education, and the economic circumstances of their families and communities. Changes like these increase the likelihood of child marriage, and over the next decade, up to 10 million more girls will be

https://www.soroptimistinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ChildWidowsReport_2018_CB.pdf
Bank (2018) reports that polygamy is legal in 25 countries.Child widows are vulnerable to sexual exploitation and many are forced into prostitut. on to survive (WHR, 2010, Dut, 2010, Khanna, in Giri, 2002). Due to litle life experience, they may also be unaware of the health ri.