CHILD MARRIAGE (THE ACT OF THE IGNORANCE)

   CHILD MARRIAGE (THE ACT OF THE IGNORANCE)

Child marriage occurs in various time and places where by children are given in matrimony before marriageable age, often puberty.it is frequently associated with arranged marriage in some cases only one partner is a child usually the female due to importance placed upon female virginity.

UNICEF calls it as a formal  marriage before 18years .UNITED NATION women calls it as a forced marriage before 18 years of age because they believe children under 18 years are incapable of giving their consent

FACT ABOUT CHILD MARRIAGE                                        

There are lots of scaring fact about child marriage that happens

1.According to the international center for research on women (ICRM) 100 million of girls will be married before the age of 18 in the coming decade. most will be in the sub-saharan  Africa and Asia sub continental (Nepal,India,Pakistan).

2.Globally according to UNICEF 36% of women aged 20-24 where married or in a union forced or consensual before they’d reach 18

3.An estimated 14 million girls between the  age of 15 and 19 give birth each year, they twice as like to die during pregnancy or child birth than women in their 20s

4.Girls who marry between the age of 10 and 14 are five times as likely to die during pregnancy or child birth as women in the early 20s

CAUSES OF CHILD MARRIAGE

Child marriage has many causes: cultural, social economic and religious. The mixture of there causes result  

1.Poverty:poor families sell  their children into marriage either to settle debt or to make some money and child marriage foster s poverty however girls who marry young will not be properly educated or take part in the workforce.

2.Gender discrimination: child marriage is a product of culture that devalue women and girls discrimination against them

3.Trafficking:poor families are tempted to sell their girls not just into marriage but into prostitution as the transaction enables large sum of money to change hands (in tribal system a man pays a bride price to the girls family in other to marry her and have the right to do anything to her)

4.Inadequate laws: many countries such as Pakistan have laws against child marriage ,communities too impose their own form of law including permitting children marriage

5.Protecting girls sexually in certain culture marring girls young ensures that the family honor will be ‘’protected’’ but ensure that the girl marries as a VIRGIN

PROBLEM OF CHILD MARRIAGE

There are lots of problem that will arise when a girl is married at a young inmature age such as poor health, early death and lack of educational opportunities lead the list of problems attributed to child marriage.

1.Child brides have a double pregnancy death rate of women in their 20s

2.Babies of child marriage are sicker and weaker and many did not survive childhood

3.child bride have a higher risk of being infected with sexually transmitted disease

4.young girls are at high risk of chronic anemia obesity

5.sexually transmitted disease because child bride have poor access to contraception

Lack of girls education opportunities lifetime of poverty (statistically, child bride have a higher risk of becoming a victim of domestic violence sexually abuse and murder)

REGIONS OF CHILD MARRIAGE

Despite many countries enacting marriageable age laws to limit marriage to a minimum age of 16-18.poverty,religion,traditional conflict make the rate of child marriage in sub-saharan Africa and similar to south Asia and almost around the world

In most African countries practice the act for example:

Mali have 72% of girls marring before the age of 18

Kenya have 21%,Niger&Chad have above 70% and in Ethiopia & Nigeria girls of 15 are put in marriage even as young as 7 are married in Niger and many more country

Asian countries have high rate of child marriage, this happen in most Asian country such as India, Pakistan and many more

47% of India women were married before the age of 18,40% child marriage happens in India and rural area of Pakistan

Child marriage marriage happens every where in the world south America, Asia, Europe, Africa and lots

The main cause of child marriage is mainly illiteracy many family of those that engage in childe marriage are local and uneducated people, and poor people find them self doing it because they have no option than to give there girls in marriage because  of the money involve and ignorance make some family sell there child into slavery and prostitution unaware.

The ways I think child marriage can be reduced or stop is: country should enact strict laws against it and they should set marriageable age to 18 and they should educating rural people about the danger involve in early marriage.

As the world population is increasing every day, I think is the high time to cope child marriage do you think enacting laws against it and setting the age to 18 will be able to cope it or what do you think can reduced or stop child marriage

Your views counts and it can save many girls life.