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World Service,11 Apr 2014,55 mins

What is it like to be a child bride?

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What is it like to be a child bride? A 14-year-old girl in Nigeria has confessed to killing the man she was forced to marry. It's got you talking about cases such as this, and why marriages to children and underage women happen. We'll be talking to a group of women who have gone through it and find out what it is like to be forced to marry an older man.

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