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By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Dominican Republic needs to change its culture so that women are seen as more than housewives for this week s ban on child marriage to work, girls rights campaigners said on Thursday.
The Caribbean nation has one of Latin America s highest rates of child marriage and early unions - typically where a girl lives with an older man - according to the United Nations (U.N.) Children s Fund, UNICEF.
Child marriage and early unions are seen as normal in society. It is driven by machismo that sees the role of a women to be just a mother and wife, said Rosa Elcarte, UNICEF s representative in the Dominican Republic. ....

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