Editing Child marriage (section)

====Bangladesh====
Child marriage rates in [[Bangladesh]] are amongst the highest in the world.<ref name=unicef12a/> Every 2 out of 3 marriages involve child marriages. According to statistics from 2005, 49% of women then between 25 and 29 were married by the age of 15 in Bangladesh.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> According to a 2008 study, for each additional year a girl in rural Bangladesh is not married she will attend school an additional 0.22 years on average.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url = http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3200264/ambrus_earlymarriage.pdf?sequence=2|title = Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh|last1 = Field|first1 = Erica|year = 2008|journal = Journal of Political Economy|doi = 10.1086/593333|last2 = Ambrus|first2 = Attila|volume=116|issue = 5|pages=881–930|s2cid = 215805592}}</ref> The later girls were married, the more likely they were to utilize preventive health care.<ref name=":0" /> Married girls in the region were found to have less influence on family planning, higher rates of maternal mortality, and lower status in their husband's family than girls who married later.<ref name=":0" /> Another study found that women who married at age 18 or older were less likely to experience IPV (intimate partner violence) than those married before age 18. It also found that girls married before age 15 were at an even higher risk for IPV.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yount|first1=Kathryn M.|last2=Crandall|first2=AliceAnn|last3=Cheong|first3=Yuk Fai|last4=Osypuk|first4=Theresa L.|last5=Bates|first5=Lisa M.|last6=Naved|first6=Ruchira T.|last7=Schuler|first7=Sidney Ruth|date=1 December 2016|title=Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis|journal=Demography|language=en|volume=53|issue=6|pages=1821–1852|doi=10.1007/s13524-016-0520-8|pmid=27812927|issn=1533-7790|pmc=5568420}}</ref>