These marriages are often performed without the consent of the girls involved in the marriage. Indian law and some Religious Laws has made child marriage illegal, but it is still widely practiced across the many African nations.
The highest rates are seen particularly in the rural states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, Northern Nigeria, e.t.c. It affects both boys and girls, but statistics show that girls are far more likely to be forced into a child marriage than boys; however the percentage of girls forced into child marriage in India has declined in recent years.
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