Poor maternal health, sexually transmitted infections, infant mortality, violence, abuse, illiteracy, isolation, psychological trauma and suicide are common among young brides.
Instagram-filtered snaps of tattooed brides standing in front of graffitied walls?
It is not the most valuable of the 53 antique finger-rings that are the focus of "Treasures and Talismans" at the Cloisters Museum in New York, but it is one of the most poetic.The many other rings on display were made for bishops and merchants, brides and mourners, flashy followers of fashion, aristocrats and courtiers.
Set in Oregon, the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (also 1954) is based on the rape of the Sabine women (hence the song "Them Sobbin' Women").
Last week, the National Forensics Bureau began to certify brides' virginity for a fee.
The idea is to have fewer Pakistani brides, fewer people studying at dodgy language centres and more PhD students.The policy is failing.
As well as the 13,000 rescued children, the authorities' crackdown on kidnapping this year is said to have found 110,000 women, most of whom had been sold as brides, though many will have been put to domestic service or prostitution.
Child brides miss out on education and usually become mothers younger, which in turn increases maternal mortality.There is not much sign of change.
Girls fight back ReprintsZeinabou is one of millions of child brides in west Africa, where early marriage is common.
Similarly, marriage abroad is seen as so desirable by the Punjabi diaspora that the press in Punjab is full of advertisements offering to arrange marriages abroad.Not all international marriages in Asia are those of poor brides in rich lands.
Marrying up, in status rather than in wealth, is still something India's brides are willing to pay for.
