Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Consequences Recommendations
• 88% if married adolescent girls do • Increasing access to sexual
not use contraceptives health services
• Early pregnancy increases risk of • Strictly forcing laws that prevent
Improvement
maternal death for adolescent child marriage, even in rural
girls areas
• Young brides have an increased • Expanding the opportunity for
risk of contracting HIV and STD’s girls to attend secondary school
• Early marriage disrupts or ends a and beyond
girl’s education • Invest in girls to learn skills to
• Increase’s risk for young girl living help support family’s income
in poverty