1. By Danielle Enloe Child Marriages

2. What is Child Marriage? • When a young girl is forced to marry an older men • This Indian girls around the age of 13 • 44.5% marred by 18 years old • 22.6% marred by 16 years old • 2.6% marred by 13 years old

3. The Incident and Who it Involved • What India did after a young women was forced to marry and said I won’t. • Rekha Kalinda • The county of India

4. What Lead up to the Incident? • Common practice that nearly half of all Indian females got married before turning the legal age of 18

5. What Were the Results? • No child marriages have taken place in the surrounding villages where two other girls refused to marry • Similar approaches are meeting success in other regions

6. Why was this topic interesting? • Most of the stories where incidences where girls went with the marriages • This one was about a girl who said no to the man and her family • stopped child marriages in India