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Early marriage and spinsterhood in Yemen

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What are the real reasons behind forcing young girls into early marriage? What are the health, psychological and social effects of girls marrying at an early age? And what is the State's position on forcing young girls into marriage?
What about spinsterhood and its problems in Yemen?
An attempt to answer these questions and others in the story “Early marriage and spinsterhood in Yemen”, from Stories with Akram Khuzam on Alhurra.
Noujoud cries when she remembers her wedding night at the age of eight and says that her husband, with the help of his mother and sister, raped her, while Hala became a spinster after turning thirty and cannot marry after this age.

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