The Secret World of Child Brides

Today on All Things Considered, Michele Norris talks with National Geographic Magazine reporter Cynthia Gorney and photographer Stephanie Sinclair about their June piece, “Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides.” I also caught up with Sinclair — a photojournalist specializing in gender and human-rights issues — to ask her a few questions about the project she has been working on for eight years.

"Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him," Tahani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was 6 and he was 25. The young wife posed for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah, Yemen.

Note: This project talks about this culture of child marriages in various countries. I was shocked to know it is not only India.. Just read through and you will know how much this ill is prevailing..! - Indian Upside