Narindra Solonjanahary, 19, is not your average teenager. At the tender age of 15, her mother forced her to marry an already-married businessman three times her age. "She said it was to support my little brothers and sisters as my father didn't want to help us anymore," she said.
Her parents had separated twelve years earlier. She was in ninth grade at the time of her marriage and it meant the suspension of her schooling. Not surprisingly, her mother's decision was an unwelcome one.
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