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- ItemOpen AccessTHE PAINS OF WOMANHOOD, TOILS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD AND THE ETHOS OF STANDARDISED NURSING LANGUAGES: A COMPENDIUM BY A MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSE SPECIALIST(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2022-07-19) Olaogun, Adenike AyobolaChild marriage is a formal or informal union in which one or both parties are below 18 years old (Liang et al, 2021). Nigeria is recorded as the 11th nation with the highest rate of child marriage, globally (UNICEF, 2020). The woman, at this stage, is biologically, economically and socially not prepared for childbearing. Epidemiological reports from some northern part of the country have revealed that 93.7% of young women whose first marriage is at 14 years end up with obstructed labor while 83.8% end up with obstetrical fistula (Bello et al, 2020).