No more child brides: Sweden will invalidate all underage marriages with a new law in January. If the young couple want to stay together they will have to remarry when both reach 18.
AMONG the tens of thousands of child refugees who have fled to Sweden from war-torn countries is a group of young girls who have presented the Nordic country with a major dilemma – they are married.
The predicament is this. Should the country accept such unions even though they would be illegal under Swedish law and could expose girls to lifelong abuse? Or should it separate couples, potentially compounding their trauma and isolation?
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