In many child marriages, girls are given away to older men in return for dowries or following the custom by which a father promises his daughters and sons to marriage while still children.

• 在许多儿童婚姻的案例中，女孩被许配给大龄男人以期得到嫁妆为回报，或者是由于习俗，父亲在孩提时代便允诺子女的婚姻。