{"id":955,"date":"2015-09-07T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T08:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2015-09-07T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T08:21:48","slug":"boys-marrying-as-young-as-7-in-nepal-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/boys-marrying-as-young-as-7-in-nepal-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys marrying as young as 7 in Nepal: CARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Fathers across Australia awake on Sunday to appreciative offspring bearing gifts, they could spare a thought for the child grooms of Nepal who can be as young as seven.<\/p>\n<p>Child marriage is mostly an issue for young girls but a new report by CARE Australia says it can also be a problem for young boys.\u00a0That can lead to psychological trauma and high rates of dropping out of school to support their new families, it found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget-ad\">\u00a0In most places where child marriage is common, older men wed younger girls.\u00a0But in parts of western Nepal, boys and girls are often forced to marry each other.<\/div>\n<p>CARE said these pre-teen children went through wedding ceremonies, then lived apart for a few years. When boys reached their early teens, the couples moved in together with the expectation of starting a family.<br \/>\nRead more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/2015\/09\/05\/10\/17\/boys-marrying-as-young-as-7-in-nepal-care#YGYZV602MM0uGYbc.99\">http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/2015\/09\/05\/10\/17\/boys-marrying-as-young-as-7-in-nepal-care#YGYZV602MM0uGYbc.99<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Fathers across Australia awake on Sunday to appreciative offspring bearing gifts, they could spare a thought for the child grooms of Nepal who can be as young as seven. Child marriage is mostly an issue for young girls but a new report by CARE Australia says it can also be a problem for young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,313,312,97,7,4,314],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australia","tag-care","tag-child-grooms","tag-child-marriage","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-trauma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}