Early Marriage Puts Lives at Risk

Hope for a better economic condition is among the reasons that motivate some parents to seek early marriages for their daughters — only for them to end up in uncertainty.

To conceive and give birth for the first time is a specially memorable moment for mothers, but for Rasminah, 36, she would rather forget what appeared to be such an excruciating ordeal 22 years ago.

Living at Krimun village, Losarang district, Indramayu regency, West Java, she said she had endured the pain even days before the labor.