DomRep has highest child-marriage rate in Americas – Jamaica Observer
UNICEF says more than one in 10 girls in the Dominican Republic are married or living with a partner before their 15th birthday, a figure that gives the country the highest rate of child marriage in the Americas.
Rosa Elcarte, UNICEF representative in the country, says that 11.7 per cent of women currently between 18 and 22 years old reported that they had married or lived with a man before they turned 15, the minimum age of sexual consent and marriage.
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