Editing Child (section)

=== Child marriage ===
In 2013, [[child marriage]] rates of female children under the age of 18 reached 75% in Niger, 68% in Central African Republic and Chad, 66% in Bangladesh, and 47% in [[India]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/08/child-brides-sold/1972905/ |title=Child brides around the world sold off like cattle|agency = Associated Press |newspaper=[[USA Today]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130308200221/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/08/child-brides-sold/1972905/   | archive-date = 8 March 2013  |date= 8 March 2013}}</ref> According to a 2019 [[UNICEF]] report on child marriage, 37% of females were married before the age of 18 in sub-Saharan Africa, followed by South Asia at 30%. Lower levels were found in Latin America and Caribbean (25%), the Middle East and North Africa (18%), and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (11%), while rates in Western Europe and North America were minimal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-marriage/|title=Child marriage|website=UNICEF DATA|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> Child marriage is more prevalent with girls, but also involves boys. A 2018 study in the journal Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies found that, worldwide, 4.5% of males are married before age 18, with the Central African Republic having the highest average rate at 27.9%.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Gastón CM, Misunas C, Cappa C |date=2019-07-03|title=Child marriage among boys: a global overview of available data |journal=Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=219–228 |doi=10.1080/17450128.2019.1566584 |issn=1745-0128 |doi-access=free}}</ref>