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Sara Tasneem was forced to grow up sooner than her peers.
萨拉·塔斯尼姆不得已要比同龄人更加成熟。
When she was 15, her father gave her to a 28-year-old man to be married.
她15岁的时候，她的父亲让她与一名28岁的男子结婚。
My dad had become involved in a very kind of like a...It's basically kind of like a cult,
我父亲像是加入了一个异教团体，
separate from like the religion of Islam, I think. It was your role as a girl that you would just be a wife and a mom.
和伊斯兰教不同，女孩子就应该为人妻，为人母，这是你的职责所在。
Tasneem who uses this name to protect her identity,
塔斯尼姆用这个名字来保护隐私，
said she was spiritually married to the man and taken away from her own family.
她表示她在精神上嫁给了这个男性，并远离了自己的家。
We left the country, went back to where he was originally from,
我们离开了这个国家，回到了这个男人原来在的地方，
and I came back about six months later when I was pregnant and 16 years old.
六个月后我怀孕的时候回来了，那时候我16岁。
And we were legally married in Reno.
我们在里诺合法结婚。
I got really depressed and I just remember seeing like, you know, kids of my age going to school,
我真的很沮丧，我记得当时看到和我同龄的孩子去上学，
and thinking you know, I want to be one of those kids.
我也很想成为他们的一员。
Tasneem's experience is not unique in the US.
塔斯尼姆的经历在美国不是个例。
A study of data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey finds that from 2010 to 2014,
经人口普查局美国社区调查研究发现，从2010年到2014年
some 78,000 American children between 15 and 17 years old said they were married.
大约有7.8万，年龄在15-17岁的美国儿童称已经结婚了。
It's a problem because they are less likely to finish high school.
这是个问题，因为他们很有可能完不成高中学业。
31 percent more likely to land in poverty in adulthood,
31%很有可能在成人后陷入贫困，
and for girls, their health is threatened when they give birth young and the health of their babies is threatened
对女生来说，如果过早生子，她们的健康也会受影响，孩子的健康也可能受影响。
The data also shows an aspect of child marriage that sets the US apart from other countries.
数据还显示了美国童婚的一个方面，这使美国与其他国家区别开来。
The boys are getting married young too.
那就是男孩子结婚也很早。
The study shows higher numbers of children of American, Indian and Chinese descent were married.
该研究显示，较多的美国人、印第安人和中国血统的儿童过早结婚。
Immigrant children were more likely than US-borned children to have been married.
移民儿童比美国儿童更有可能早结婚。
This is not unique to any one religion.
这不是哪一种宗教独有的。
There are child marriages across all ethnic groups and countries of origin,
不管哪个种族、也不管来自哪里，都存在童婚的现象，
but those children who come from families that originated in Latin America, the Middle East or East Asia do have higher rates.
但来自拉丁美洲，中东或东亚家庭的孩子确实有较高的童婚率。
It is also the case that children whose parents were born here in the United States still have far higher rates than would be acceptable.
对于那些父母在美国出生的孩子，他们的童婚率也高出可接受范围。
Tasneem had two children with her husband before she could get a divorce.
塔斯尼姆离婚之前有两个孩子。
So I really felt robbed.
我感觉自己被抢了。
I felt robbed of my education and to this day, I'm still fighting to get my education back.
他们夺走了我的教育，直到今天我依然在争取我的教育。
At 37 years old, her children are grown and she recently remarried, but getting to this point has not been easy.
在她37岁时，孩子长大了，最近她再婚，但提到这件事情依然不容易。
There's really no way to make somebody whole after, you know taking away their freedom.
如果你剥夺了别人的自由，你做什么都挽回不了了。
Researchers say survivors' stories may help the public understand the effects of being married too young.
研究人员表示，幸存者的故事也许能帮助公众了解童婚的影响。
Elizabeth Lee, VOA News, Los Angeles.
美国之音新闻，伊丽莎白·李洛杉矶报道。
