Choices For Girls - Child Marriage

Because I am a Girl Plan Girls & women in Great Britain i Girls & women in developing countries Over Every 0ó:00:03 Seconds 50% a girl is coaxed, coerced or forced into marriage. Marriage Too often to a man of single British women are not concerned about whether they'll get married, a study reveals she doesn't know. 10 million girls AID in developing countries are coaxed, coerced or forced into marriage under the age of 18 every year. I in 7 are under 15. More than a third of women 205 think a woman in her early is too young to get married The average age for girls to marry in The average age ~Mali is 16.6, n Niger, 15.5 -Bangladesh 15 for women in the UK to get married is 30 and in Girls & women in Great Britain i Girls & women in developing countries ! 26% 1,000 S of girls give birth when Children they are still children themselves. (ompared with women over 20 of women in GB think that when they have children is the single most important decision they can make years old girls aged between 15 and 19 are TWICE as likely to die giving birth The average age for Between 25-50% a woman to have of girls become mothers in developing countries before the age of 18 her first child is 27 i Girls & women in Great Britain Girls & women in developing countries ! eee eeee 81% Education T in 3 girls globally are denied a secondary education - 75 million girls are currently not in school || of women believe education is one of the most important choices that anyone can ever make DOC ---------