Child marriage is a form of child abuse and it is a subject of politics; it is an issue that has been, will be and should be related to politics. Child marriages are political: in narrow sense, they have been structured by political actors, politicians, law-makers, policy developers and implementers' political ideological positions, and in broad sense, they have been possible in individual, organizational and social levels by means of law, politics and broader society. This article sees child marriages both as a social and political issue and attempts to answer the following questions: Considering child-marriages in Turkey, who counts as a child, how the difference between a child and an adult is made, how it is posisible to represent and present child marriage as unrelated to child abuse so that some children's "marriages" are attempted to be presented as "legitimate." Therefore, which children become particularly vulnerable to child marriage risk?