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American laws against polygamy, child-marriage and incest do not run afoul of the Constitution.

Ken Klukowski: Marriage and the Constitution Ken Klukowski 2010

Statistics also show an inverse relationship between education and FGM practice (which contributes to the prevalence of child-marriage in Tanzania).

DARF- A TANZANIAN DIASPORAS LED ORGANISATION IN UK MAKING AN IMPACT IN TANZANIA 2009

A celebrated child-marriage was that at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in 1541, the contracting parties being William, Lord Eure, aged 10-11 years, and

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Ancestor-worship, with its separate family ceremonials, for which the wife must learn her husband's family ritual, led to child-marriage, and that in turn to the slavery of the wife not only to the husband but to the older women of his family.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

Not quite so much stress is laid on child-marriage; indeed, some native societies are being formed for the purpose of opposing this custom, and many more girls are allowed to attend school than used to be the case.

A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett

When child-marriage was not a part of marriage customs, however, and a suitable age was demanded, for sex-unions, ancestor-worship made the position of the father secure.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

The _Report of the Census of India_, 1901, takes a gloomy view regarding the province of Bengal, the most forward in many respects, but the most backward in respect of child-marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

Marriages within the same _gotra_ and between first cousins are prohibited, and child-marriage is usual.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Bad enough in Mohammedan countries, it is perhaps at its worst among the Hindus of India, with child-marriage, the virtual enslavement of widows (burned alive till prohibited by English law), and a seclusion more strict even than that of the "harem" of Moslem lands.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

In fact, its first efforts were directed, not so much to politics, as to social and economic reforms like the suppression of child-marriage, the remarriage of widows, and wider education.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916