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Life for women like Mercy are exposed to vulnerable associated with economic abuse that leads to physical and affect even children when experience their mothers facing multiple abuse of all forms and impact on them too. Lack of education and harmful practices and punitive policies and unsupportive systems and structural inequalities leaves women voiceless because they lack information and skills to survive and this leads to child marriage, a vicious cycle that affect their children too and community practices reinforces such behaviours