Burkina Faso

• Poverty, tradition and lack of education all drive the growth and influence of child marriage in Burkina Faso
  
• Burkina Faso has a child marriage prevalence rate of 52%. Almost one out of two girls in Burkina Faso will be married before the age of 18
  
• For more information, look at Girls Not Brides page

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Nepal

• Nepal has the third highest child marriage rate in Asia, after India and Bangladesh
  
• Child labor, societal pressures and poverty all play a role in this high rate of child marriage. Most of Nepal's child marriages are in its indigenous and Dalit communities, which are often socially marginalized and of lower castes
  
• The term "love marriage" is used to describe the phenomenon where young children choose to marry one another, in order to escape the inevitable arranged child marriage they would otherwise face by marrying an older person
  
• For more information, look at the Human Rights Watch page

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Dominican Republic

• Dominican Republic has the 2nd highest rate of child marriages in Latin America
  
• Latin America is the only place where there has been little to no decline in child marriage over the past 30 years
• Older men having sex with girls younger than 18 is widely accepted as girls often associate an age difference with a greater life experience, while older men prefer younger girls as they are "obedient" and "adaptable"
• Poverty, considering marriage emancipation and societal pressures all are factors behind child marriage
  
• For more information, look at the Girls Not Brides section.