VIDEO: After Years of Civil War, Child Marriage Is on the Rise in Yemen

Desperate parents are marrying off daughters as young as 8 years old

Parents marry off their daughters to be relieved of the cost of their care, or because they believe a husband's family can offer better protection. Families also sell their daughters for dowry payments to cope with conflict-related hardship. Child brides are especially common in parts of Yemen that host large numbers of displaced people: Millions of Yemenis have been forced out of their homes by the war.

Yemen's children did not start the war, but they are paying the highest price

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