article_snippet: Child marriage is in both rural and urban areas.
article_snippet: Guarantee for poverty' I will remain sad because I know the cost of child marriage.
article_snippet: I know the cost of child marriage deprives girls of education and undermines girls of education self-confidence and self-identity.
article_snippet: I know the cost of child marriage also makes them prone to physical and emotional abuse by them so called husbands.
article_snippet: Further to this, girl-child marriage inevitably means early parentage and higher risks of maternal mortality.
article_snippet: As if this is not enough, studies have shown  that girl-child marriage is a risk factor in the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, as young wives do not have much bargaining power to negotiate safe sex with older men.
article_snippet: What I know for sure child marriage is a guarantee for poverty among girls in my country and I want sure child marriage to end.
highlights_snippet: Studies show the practice increases the risks of childbirth for both mother and infant .
  