Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Lynn S. Elharake

Overview

One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. CFR Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved effective against child marriage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876095911
Publisher:	Council on Foreign Relations
Publication date:	07/28/2014
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)