{"id":3947,"date":"2025-02-22T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2025-02-22T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:42:03","slug":"explainer-5-common-myths-about-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: 5 common myths about child marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every day, almost one in five young women are married off while still children, according to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, which is urging countries to say \u201cI don\u2019t\u201d to child marriage, an illegal practice that is almost universally condemned and yet remains widespread globally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI was married at 14, and I lost my first child at 16 during pregnancy,\u201d Ranu Chakma said. Child marriage is common in her village of Teknaf Upazila, on the southern coast of Bangladesh, even though it is illegal and a human rights violation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those violations occur even at a time when many countries are banning the illegal practice, most recently in Colombia, where a law came into effect earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are five common misconceptions about child marriage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, almost one in five young women are married off while still children, according to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, which is urging countries to say \u201cI don\u2019t\u201d to child marriage, an illegal practice that is almost universally condemned and yet remains widespread globally. \u201cI was married at 14, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english-gate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}