I only finished second grade. I didn’t like school and quit, so my mother told me to sit in the kitchen. My uncle asked me if I want to marry this person and I said ‘yes,’ but I didn’t know what marriage was. I met my husband for the first time on our wedding night.
I was young and went to a big house. I didn’t know how to cook or do anything. They [husband’s family] would yell at me.... One day my sister-in-law hit me because I was yelling at her children to get up.
Narrative provided by Human Rights Watch in their report “How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”: Child Marriage in Yemen
