{"id":273371,"date":"2019-04-17T18:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vbWcuY28uemEvYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDE5LTA0LTE4LTAwLWV0aGlvcGlhcy1jaGlsZC1icmlkZXMtY2FuLWFuZC1tdXN0LWJlLXN1cHBvcnRlZNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:07","slug":"ethiopias-child-brides-can-and-must-be-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273371","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s child brides can and must be supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mail & Guardian\u2019s Metsehate Ayenekulu wrote in April 2019 that Ethiopia\u2019s millions of <strong>child brides<\/strong> needed support systems that matched the scale of early marriage, not slogans alone.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-467311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ethiopia%E2%80%99s-education-system-is-in-crisis-%E2%80%93-now%E2%80%99s-the-time-to-fix-it.jpg?fit=768%2C461&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia\u2019s child brides can and must be supported\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The commentary followed young couples under pressure to prove fertility while education, health, and economic options stayed thin. Of an estimated 15 million child brides in Ethiopia, millions were younger than 15, a statistic that should shame any reform narrative that ignores girls\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Law on the books and practice in villages are different countries. The Ethiopian government could claim progress in women\u2019s cabinet posts while child marriage and school dropout kept rewriting girls\u2019 futures.<\/p>\n<p>As rights reference, the piece insists support means contraception access, schooling, economic alternatives, and community work against coercion. Naming the crisis without funding the exit is just another press release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-04-18-00-ethiopias-child-brides-can-and-must-be-supported\">Mail & Guardian<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s child brides can and must be supported&nbsp;&nbsp;Mail and GuardianA 15-year-old, Aisha*, and her 19-year-old husband, Kidanu*, had a dream to buy a house and maybe more cattle before they had children. In Ethiopia, there is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":467311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ethiopia%E2%80%99s-education-system-is-in-crisis-%E2%80%93-now%E2%80%99s-the-time-to-fix-it.jpg?fit=1018%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-197d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600848,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273371\/revisions\/600848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}