{"id":93602,"date":"2026-08-31T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93602"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:41:44","slug":"children-under-five-among-scores-feared-being-forced-into-marriage-as-campaigner-warns-deeply-disturbing-trend-will-see-pupils-missing-ahead-of-new-school-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/children-under-five-among-scores-feared-being-forced-into-marriage-as-campaigner-warns-deeply-disturbing-trend-will-see-pupils-missing-ahead-of-new-school-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Children under five among scores feared being forced into marriage &#8211; as campaigner warns &#8216;deeply disturbing&#8217; trend will see pupils &#8216;missing&#8217; ahead of new school term"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/31\/08\/110948819-16092433-image-a-1_1788162124183.jpg\" alt=\"At least 100 children aged 12 or younger have been referred to the Government's forced marriage unit in the past five years, figures show (Stock photo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children under five may have been forced into marriage in the UK, Home Office data has revealed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16092433\/Children-five-scores-feared-forced-marriage-campaigner-warns-deeply-disturbing-trend-pupils-missing-ahead-new-school-term.html\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children under five may have been forced into marriage in the UK, Home Office data has revealed.\u00a0 \u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/child-marriage2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93603,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93602\/revisions\/93603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}