Child Marriage and Maternal Health Crisis Highlighted in Early Union Case

MATERNAL HEALTH IS THE KEY

AT 13 years of age, Sana was engaged to a cousin 10 years older than her. Marriage followed soon after. Naturally, the process of her physical and cognitive development was still in a crucial stage. Her father’s only source of income was small-scale farming, and she grew up stunted and undernourished. Poverty and uncertainty due to escalating climate events forced him to marry off his first daughter at an early age. Sana looked smaller, leaner and paler than standard at her age. Healthy eatin...

By none@none.com (Tabinda Ashraf Shahid)