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Female Infanticide, Female Foeticide and Child Marriage

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What is the practice of marrying children, sometimes as young as 7 or 8 years old, called?

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Child marriage

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Widow remarriage

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Youth marriage

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Infant marriage

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The correct option is A Child marriage
Child marriage refers to the marriage between an adult and a child or the marriage between two children. Sometimes, the children who were married off were even infants.

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