You look like a precocious schoolgirl.

What's next for this precocious nine year old?

It usually happens to older children. He's precocious.

If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

Here, there are more infectious diseases and premature marriages that can contribute for the precocious maternities.

However, in many areas of our country, there are recurrent traditional marriages involving adults with girls aged less than 12 years, and these subsequently enter into precocious sexual activity, without any sanctioning to the perpetrators.

Generally speaking, prostitutes have a concealed history of violence, discrimination and rejection almost always precocious, they have earned their family apos s disapproval because of their quot immoral quot conduct and this leads to a cycle of violence against them.

In the light of article 16, paragraphs 1 (b) and 2, dealing with free consent to marriage and minimum marital age, she would like to know the Government's position on the marriage of girls as young as nine, allowed by some religious communities in rural areas even though such marriages violated the girl's right to be a child and compromised her health, and its position on precocious and incestuous marriages in general.