Thursday, May 4, 2017
Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds
Nearly 25,000 girls aged between 12 and 14 are living in "early unions."
Hundreds of thousands of young girls in Mexico are being forced into marriages with older men, a new report reveals.
The report, conducted by Mexico’s Research in Health and Demography, INSAD, states that 83 percent of married girls had left school, while a staggering 92 percent of those who left school are living informally with a man. And only 15 percent of Mexican girls who dropped out of school were not in such relationships. . .