Noun
child marriage (countable and uncountable, plural child marriages)
The marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.
The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world. Tawakkol Karman
Islamic apologists in the West argue furiously that child marriage has nothing to do with Islam, and that the idea that Muhammad married a child is the invention of greasy Islamophobes. In reality, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Robert Spencer
As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference. Helene D. Gayle
Child marriage, FGM and son preference - which can be expressed as gender-biased sex selection or postnatal sex selection - cause profound and lasting harms. Source: Internet
The organisation, Child Rights Trust (CRT), in its memorandum submitted to the Department of Women and Child Development, cited the declaration of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act in 2006 on the same day, as the reason behind the suggestion. Source: Internet
Priyabrat Satapathy, M&E Manager, Action Aid discussed about the Child Marriage Prohibition Rule-2019. Source: Internet