RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Census figures from 2010 show that nearly 43,000 children under 14 years of age are living with a partner in Brazil in defiance of laws forbidding these unions.
Brazil’s penal code prohibits marriage with children under 14 and defines sex with them as statutory rape.
The states in which these unions are most common have the country’s lowest per-capita income.
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Brazil Census shows nearly 43,000 kids under 14 years old are married
September 13, 2011
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