According to the Country Program Action Plan between the Government of Nepal and the United Nations Population Fund, 32 percent of women in Nepal are married by the age of 19. Girls in Nepal are sometimes married as young as 5 or 6 years old, and it is not uncommon for girls to be married at 10 or 11.

After such an early marriage, women begin giving birth at very young ages, before the body has fully developed. Nineteen percent of Nepali girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have given birth or are pregnant with their first child. Early marriage contributes to uterine prolapse by putting young girls at risk through earlier pregnancies.

Kanni and Kaliya Devi Chaudhary