Child Marriage: Buying and Selling Brides

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Child marriage usually occurs in poor, rural communities. The brides are often betrothed to older men, sometimes even before they're born. In this episode, Caroline and Cristen explore the social and economic roots of this practice. Tune in to learn more.

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1:47.2	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline. So just as a reminder for
1:52.7	listeners out there a little while ago in podcast history, Molly and I did an episode on human
2:00.6	trafficking and sex trafficking and one aspect of sex trafficking that we didn't get to address
2:09.0	that really needs to be talked about I think even more than it is in the media and elsewhere
2:15.8	is the issue of child marriage and child brides. Right. Yeah, imagine if you were eight years old
2:23.0	living in Afghanistan or India, some states. You don't get to dream about your wedding day the same
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