NEARLY a quarter of all adolescent girls who have been in a relationship — close to 19 million — will have experienced intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new analysis on Monday.
NEARLY a quarter of all adolescent girls who have been in a relationship — close to 19 million — will have experienced intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20, the World Health Organization said in a new analysis on Monday.
Furthermore, intimate partner violence against young women is most common in lower-income countries and regions, in places where fewer girls are attending secondary school, and where girls have weaker legal property ownership and inheritance rights compared to men.Child marriage — that is, before a girl turns 18 — also significantly heightens risks, WHO said. Spousal age differences create power imbalances, economic dependency and social isolation — all of which increase the likelihood of abuse.
Of Women Suffer 'Intimate Partner Violence'
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