child marriage
marriage entered into by an individual before reaching the age of majority
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Summary
child marriage is a type of marriage[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of type of marriage entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,699 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: marriage[3], child sexuality[4], harmful cultural practice[5]
- Commons category: Child marriage[6]
- Participant: minor[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Child marriage[8]
- Described at URL: https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1062[9]
- Facet of: women's health[10], child mortality[11], marriage law[12]
- Partially coincident with: forced marriage[13], arranged marriage[14], child abuse[15]
- Has contributing factor: prostitution of children[16], trafficking of children[17], gender inequality[18], pedophilia[19], tradition[20], reproductive coercion[21], domestic violence[22], teenage pregnancy[23], kidnapping[24], cultural genocide[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[26], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[27]
Why It Matters
child marriage has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]