 Mom at 15 years living in the street .. is the marriage of children and adolescents below the age of 18.
The "practice of marrying girls at a young age is common in South Asia".
There are specific parts of South Asia where marriages before puberty are not unusual. However, the Centre also notes that marriage shortly after puberty is common among those living traditional lifestyles in the Middle East, North Africa and other parts of Asia. Marriages of female adolescents between sixteen and eighteen are common in parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe. |
The pictures Gallery 
It is around nine o'clock in the morning. I am on my way back from the market, and I take street no 2 towards the white elephant pagoda, thus being in the city centre. In front of me, on the other pavement, I see three boys dressed in rags. Their heads are shaved and two of them are beating the third, who is lying on the ground. They are 11 and 13 years old, and they are enthusiastically kicking the lying boy, the youngest of the three, in the head and in the stomach.