This report shows the drama of very young pregnant girls in Guatemala, which were married beginning at age of eleven and gave birth between age 12 until 17:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... .html?_r=0Too early wedding and motherhood causes many severe problems:
- risks of domestic violence and sex abuse,
- interruption of school education,
- risks for the health of girls and their babies,
- high mortality of too young mothers and their too weak babies,
- a whole life in uneducated poverty...
For this reason, Guatemala just raises the legal marriage age for girls from 14 up to 18.
But for to implement this in real life, Guatemala has to be supported:
Carrying the Knowledge about the bad consequences of too early marriage and pregnancy in every little village!
Carrying the Knowledge how to avoid unwished pregnancies to all young people!
Educating specially all the men to take over their responsibility on family planning!
Access to family planning methods for all poor people!