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Stephanie Sinclair
VII for National Geographic Magazine
"TOO YOUNG TO WED: THE SECRET WORLD OF CHILD BRIDES"
"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. Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children.
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