Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #CensusIndia
Most recents (1)
One in three child brides are from India. One in every three child brides lives in India, which has the sixth-highest rate of child marriage in the world, according to information from the UNICEF report titled "Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects."
Source: #CensusIndia
Source: #CensusIndia
As evidenced by the fact that 7.84 million (65%) of those who were married were female, eight out of every ten illiterate children who were married were also female. According to the data, 58.5% of Muslim girls and 72% of Hindu girls who were married before the age of ten
lived in rural areas and are mostly oppressed according to the Brahmin hierarchy caste system, with later marriage being associated with higher levels of schooling. This child marriage system was designed to not let girls face off with men equally, as many text references in
