Articles by Tripti Lahiri
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Child Marriage in India: A Human Trafficking Problem?
Tripti Lahiri - The Wall Street Journal, India,
10 Feb 2014
As with trafficking, money changes hands. In this case, though, it’s the “selling” party that makes the payment, in the form of dowry. The broker who helps arrange the match also makes some money. Even though the bride’s family isn’t getting a payment, there’s a financial incentive to marry a girl earlier, since they’ll need to pay the groom’s family more money to take an educated girl, she found. Also, once a daughter has been sent off, that leaves a little more to go around for everyone else.
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