Finally, child marriage violates the right of girls to express their views regarding decisions that will shape the entire course of their lives. Many of these studies address the problem of child marriage in an international human rights framework, highlighting the grave economic, health, social, and psychological consequences that result when girls are forced to marry too young. The majority of this literature, however, is based on country-level research, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where rates of child marriage are the highest. Syria: A Regional Crisis.”