Girls’ Voices: Narratives of Child Brides

Take a peek into the lives of 5 girls around the world who are child brides. Every year over 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. For some girls it is hard to imagine being taken out of grade school and sent to live with a man twice their age, who they never met before, to live out the rest of their lives as a wife. In these 5 narratives you find that these girls are not much different than anyone else. They want to go to school. They want to finish growing up and to chase their own dreams. Imagine yourself in their shoes as you read these narratives from girls who live in Malawi, Kyrgyzstan, India, Ethiopia, and the United States. Girls' Voices sheds light on the difficult hardships girls worldwide face that must be talked about including denial of education, forced sex, teenage pregnancy, hunger, domestic violence, and even death.