Question

Write in brief about child marriage.

Answer 1

• Many children are forced to marry before 18 years of age in India, this is called child marriage and it is a crime.
• There is a law on child marriage, which has strictly fixed the minimum age for marriage for girls at 18 and boys at 21 years.
• Still, this law has been broken for various reasons like lack of education, poverty, low family income and inequalities.