A Social Norms Analysis of Religious Drivers of Child Marriage

by Olivia Wilkinson, Kerida McDonald, Susanna Trotta, Jennifer Philippa Eggert and Florine de Wolf

This article in Global Health: Science and Practice provides an analysis of social and behavioral drivers of child marriage to advance the protection and empowerment of girls from child marriage. Child marriage directly negatively affects girls and boys and, more broadly, negatively impacts their families and communities. The analysis emerges from work undertaken for UNICEF’s Global Initiative on Faith and Positive Change for Children, Families, and Communities (FPCC).