Fragile States, Fragile Lives

  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Summary

Child marriage does not cause fragile states, but it does reinforce poverty, limit girls’ education, stymie economic progress, and contribute to regional instability. But there is a wide gap in data that assesses the degree to which fragile contexts perpetuate child marriage, resulting in a gap in informed intervention. Closing this gap will help produce more effective and targeted interventions to assist the youngest and most at-risk members of communities in crisis, and improve the future prospects of all members of the next generation in some of the most challenging corners of the world.

Citation

Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach. Fragile States, Fragile Lives: Child Marriage Amid Disaster and Conflict. Washington, DC: Council on Foreign Relations, 2014.

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