{"id":7913,"date":"2020-02-04T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"why-climate-change-is-creating-a-new-generation-of-child-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/04\/why-climate-change-is-creating-a-new-generation-of-child-brides\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Climate Change Is Creating A New Generation Of Child Brides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Gethin Chamberlain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone has their own idea of what climate change looks like. For some, it\u2019s the walrus struggling to find space on melting ice floes on\u00a0<em>Blue Planet II<\/em>. For others, it\u2019s an apocalyptic vision of cities disappearing beneath the waves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for more and more girls across Africa, the most palpable manifestation of climate change is the baby in their arms as they sit watching their friends walk to school. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridesofthesun.com\/\">Brides of the Sun<\/a>\u00a0reporting project, funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ejc.net\/\">European Journalism Centre,<\/a>\u00a0set out to try to assess the scale of what many experts are warning is a real and growing crisis:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/oct\/11\/child-marriage-more-than-20000-underage-girls-marry-illegally-each-day-claims-study\">the emergence of a generation of child brides<\/a>\u00a0as a direct result of a changing climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And time and again, in villages from the south of Malawi to the east coast of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a>, the child brides and their parents told an increasingly familiar story. In recent years they had noticed the temperatures rising, the rains becoming less predictable and coming later and sometimes flooding where there had not been flooding before. Families that would once have been able to afford to feed and educate several children reported that they now faced an impossible situation.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/nov\/26\/climate-change-creating-generation-of-child-brides-in-africa\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gethin Chamberlain Everyone has their own idea of what climate change looks like. For some, it\u2019s the walrus struggling to find space on melting ice floes on\u00a0Blue Planet II.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}