Child Marriage

Between 2013 and 2016, the Australian Federal Police received 138 referrals for suspected forced marriage cases

• True

• False

Child marriage does not happen in Australia

• True

• False

Child marriage only happens in Africa and Asia

• True

• False

Child marriage takes place in high-income countries

• True

• False

Global child marriage rates are slowly falling

• True

• False

In Pakistan, 14 percent of boys boys marry before they reach age 18

• True

• False

In West and Central Africa, over four in ten girls are married before the age of 18

• True

• False

Married girls rarely enrol in school

• True

• False

More than 650 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday

• True

• False

Nineteen percent of women between the ages of 20 and 24 around the world are child brides

• True

• False