Child marriage is a practice involving a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, that includes an individual under eighteen and an adult or another child. The source lead supports only this definition, so no further claim is added here (ruling 678); the wider legal and regional record of the practice is a depth-wave gap. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Child Marriage (Wikipedia)
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Child marriage is a practice involving a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, that includes an individual under 18 and an adult or other child.
English Wikipedia, intro text
UNICEF data from 2018 showed that about 21% of young women worldwide (aged 20 to 24) were married as children.
Lead, institution-type-category kinship-institution
Child marriage is a practice involving a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, that includes an individual under 18 and an adult or other child.
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