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Sold as a child bride, escaped at 15: How Payal Jangid became the voice against child marriage

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...
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The inconvenient truth about child brides

On 14 January 2014, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Kader (ironically, her name means “fate” in Turkish) was laid to rest in the Pervari district of Siirt, Turkey. She shared the same fate as ...
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Courtney Stodden narrates her own biopic, ‘I Was a Child Bride,’ premiering September 27 on Lifetime

Part of Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines” series, a collection of films based on real people, “I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story” follows the life of a 16-year-old starlet whose ...
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‘I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story’ revisits controversial case involving age-gap marriage

The new drama I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story premieres on Lifetime Saturday, Sept. 27 at 8/7c. Narrated by Stodden herself, the new Lifetime original movie revisits Stodden’s ...