Three girls, three stories: The perils of child marriage and the promise of freedom

BELGRADE, Serbia/LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan/ESK İŞEHİR, Turkey – How much is a girl worth? If you are Maja, the answer is a chicken, a six-pack of beer and €100. That is how much her family, living in a Roma settlement in Serbia, received in exchange for her hand “in marriage.” She was 11 years old at the time. “They benefited maybe a month from it, a nd I was left with a problem for my whole life,” Maja, now 18, said. “My three sisters didn’t do much better. One gave birth when she turned 13.
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