Recommendations The issue of child marriages deserves considerably more investigation, and in larger samples, to interrogate the interactions between the factors and processes identified in this study. Several areas for future study are:      Politicians being used by culprits’ families to plead/negotiate with the family of a rape victim to settle out of court; The processes through which simple verbal agreements are reached between the rapist family and victim’s family; Allegations that the police validate the precedence of culture over the law in their execution of duties especially with regards to domestic violence and rape cases; The problems around dialogue between children and their parents on sexual health; The suitability and acceptability of different teenage pregnancy prevention strategies, especially the paradox of parents taking own children to the clinic to give them contraceptive injections, or decisions to provide condoms in schools and churches. 28