If you don't see it is it real?: Child Brides

Young girl cowers at husbands feet

11-year-old in Malawi, Africa, fled to social services after her grandmother made her marry a man 29 years

Portrait of Said, 55, and Roshan, 8, on the day of their engagement, Afghanistan

Police woman Malalai Kakar (back right) arrests Janan, 35, after he tried to kill his 15-year-old wife Jamila for angering him by fleeing her home to stay with her mother following years of abuse

Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia

Sumeena Shreshta Balami, right, 15, leaves her home to meet her groom

Sarita, 15, is seen covered in tears and sweat before she is sent to her new home in Rajasthan, India

Maya, 8, and Kishore, 13, pose for a wedding photo inside their new home the day after the Hindu holy day of Akshaya Tritiya, or Akha Teej, in Rajasthan, India

Asia, a 14-year-old mother, washes her new baby girl at home in Hajjah while her two-year-old daughter plays

Faiz, 40, and Ghulam, 11, sit in her home prior to their wedding in the rural Damarda Village, Afghanistan on September 11, 2005


Debritu, 14, escaped from her husband while seven month pregnant


Sumeena, 15, cries as her father carries her to the front of the wedding procession, which will transport her to her new husband's home. The harmful traditional practice of early marriage common in Nepal. Early marriage is a harmful traditional practice common in Nepal. The Kagati village, a Newar community, is most will known for its propensity towards this practice.

A nine-months pregnant Niruta, 14, arrives at the wedding ceremony. Niruta moved in with the family of Durga Bahadur Balami, 17, and became pregnant when they were only engaged. In some circles of the more socially open Newar people, this is permissible.


Village leader blesses the home of Surita, 16, directly following the wedding ceremony.

Saraswati, 14, the sister of bride Sumeena, 15, cries as the groom's family takes Sumeena away.

Bishal, 16, and Surita, 14, accepts gifts from relatives after their wedding ceremony.

Tsegaya, 13, sits with her friends while waiting for her groom Talema, 23, on their wedding day.

Children sing and clap at the wedding of Tsegaya, 13, and Talema, 23, in the Yeganda Village.

Family members place a white cloth over the head of Leyualem, 14, as she is prepared to be whisked away on a mule by her new groom and groomsmen. Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet submitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.

Yekaba, 15, is carried to the hospital by her relatives. She had been in labor for three days with her first born. She later developed a fistula, a common result of prolonged obstructed labor and early marriage. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.

Elsa, 20, prepares for church in her home. At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.

Majabin, 13, wife of farmer Mohammed, 45, works in their mud home, Afghanistan, June 7, 2006. Mohammed was offered Majabin as a debt settlement when a fellow farmer could not pay after a night of playing cards. They have been married for six months.

A newly married teenage girl is seen inside her home in Takhar Povince, Afghanistan, May 1, 2010. According to Unicef, 57 percent of Afghan marriages involve girls under 16. Women's activists say up to 80 percent of marriages in the country are either forced or arranged. The problem is particularly acute in poverty-stricken rural areas.

SOURCE: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=712
NOTE: all VII photos by Stephanie Sinclair

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