Does Climate Change Increase the Risk of Child Marriage? a Look at What We Know - and What We Don't - with Lessons from Bangladesh and Mozambique

Abstract

Her husband eventually abandoned her and their three children to return to his first wife. As a single mother, Beauty relies on agricultural work to feed her children and often loses the chance to work due to regular flooding in her area. Even though tuition is waived for primary school in Bangladesh, she was forced to take her two daughters out of school after class five and class three,2 as they could not afford to purchase school