Just married at 13: Inside the child marriages that are on the rise in rural China after nation abandons one-child rule

13-year-old Jie married 18-year-old husband Wen three days after they met, got pregnant and dropped out of school
•Photographer Muyi Xiao documented cases of southern China's teen brides and grooms who still live at home
•Legal age of marriage in China is 20 for women and 22 for men, but families ignore it and register the wedding later
•Creating generation of 'lost children' left behind with grandparents when couple move away to cities to find work
Jie was barely a teenager when she got married just three days after meeting her 18-year-old husband Wen.
They met at a Spring festival while the 13-year-old was visiting Wen's family when her husband-to-be insisted she stay and become his wife.
Unaware of birth control, the teen wife was soon pregnant and dropped out of school - a fate similar to an increasing number of child brides in rural China.
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