Child Marriage transcends all religious, spiritual, and physical boundaries. It’s not only child abuse but also a violation of the basic human rights of a child. Child marriage is described as, ‘Any formal marriage or informal union between a child under the age of 18 and an adult, or another child’. Children who have been a part of child marriage have been forced against their will to partake in such heinous acts and have been deprived of their childhood. Child marriages have numerous consequences on the mental and physical well-being of a child. Young brides are deprived of contraception and proper healthcare, they are forced to overlook their reproductive, mental, and physical health to serve the marital home. Young marriage is associated with the following problems – premature death, retarded growth, emotional trauma, vesicovaginal fistula (VVF), prolonged labour, anaemia (shortage of blood), miscarriage, vaginal tear, caesarean sections, educational setbacks, accelerated ageing, promiscuity, bleeding (pre and postpartum) HIV/AIDS, swelling of legs (oedema), ignorance, hot temperateness, and cervical cancer. Among these problems mentioned; the major problems the respondents identified were anaemia, educational setback, caesarean sections, obstructed labour, miscarriages, vesicovaginal fistula, vaginal tear, and emotional trauma. Unfortunately, child marriage is very common in the world, despite numerous laws against it. Stats say that one in every five girls falls prey to child marriage. 40 percent of girls are married before age 18, and 12 percent of girls are married before age 15. In 2016, 5.6 million girls under the age of 18 became child brides. Child marriage is quotidian in the continent of Africa, specifically in backward places like Niger and Chad. In Niger, 76% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 28% are married before the age of 15. In India, child marriage was banned in 1929 (Child Marriage Restraint Act) during the British colonial rule. During that time, the legal age for a girl to be married off was 14 whereas, the legal age for a boy to get married was decided to be 18. After India got independence, the legal age of girls to get married was increased. Currently, the fixed ages for men and women to get married legally in India are 21 and 18 respectively. Even though child marriage is illegal in India, some rural states practice it actively. Child marriages surged by 50% in the year 2020 compared to the previous year according to recent National Crime Records Bureau data. Globally, 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children! Causes of child marriages include poverty, bride price, dowry, cultural traditions, religious and social pressures, regional customs, fear of the child remaining unmarried into adulthood, illiteracy, and perceived inability of women to work for money. The main and most prominent reason behind child marriage is gender inequality, men and boys are led to believe that women are inferior to them and can be used as servants at home. A few things that can be done to end child marriage: educate girls, empower women with life skills, educate parents, encourage supportive laws and policies, and educate men about women's rights. UNICEF along with other NGO’s have come up with various resources to help girls in rural and uneducated places. They are actively working towards putting an end to social issues like child marriage by educating the local people and spreading awareness about human rights. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is mere tenacity”. –Emilia Earhart. Let us join hands and put an end to child marriage, let us educate girls.