{"id":89918,"date":"2025-08-20T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89918"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:45:00","slug":"why-pakistan-cant-stop-child-marriages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/why-pakistan-cant-stop-child-marriages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pakistan can&#8217;t stop child marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2yMwgbtFQmE3KDG5oY\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s illegal to marry before the age of 16 in Pakistan, yet the country is home to almost 19 million child brides. So why can&#8217;t the South Asian country stop the harmful practice?<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s illegal to marry before the age of 16 in Pakistan, yet the country is home to almost 19 million child brides. So why can&#8217;t the South Asian country stop the harmful practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[35386,726],"class_list":["post-89918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-child-marriages","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89960,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89918\/revisions\/89960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}