Only eight of the marriages were formally annulled by legal authorities. These figures reveal the scale of the practice in the region and show that the vast majority of these recorded childhood unions remained legally in place.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Baden-Württemberg Reveals 358 Child Marriages Since 2012
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Girls as young as 11 were married to adult men in reports detailing unions within Germany. New data from the state of Baden-Württemberg shows that 358 marriages involving children were registered from April 2012 through the present, with husbands primarily originating from Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.
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