EARLY MARRIAGE

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How's your day everyone?  May all of you have a nice and a great day with your beloved family. Today I want to share about my new entry is about EARLY MARRIAGE.  

                

Early marriage is defined as marriage and adolescents below the age of 18. Parents choose to marry off their daughters early for a number of reasons. Poor families may regard a young girl as an economic burden and her marriage as a necessary survival strategy for her family. They may think that early marriage offers protection for their daughter from the dangers of sexual assault, or more generally, offers the care of a male guardian. Early marriage may also be seen as a strategy to avoid girls becoming pregnant outside marriage.

Parents choose to marry off their daughters early for a of reasons. Poor families may regard a young girl as an economic burden and her marriage as a necessary survival strategy for her family. They may think that early marriage offers protection for their daughter from the dangers of sexual assault, or more generally , offers the care of a male guardian. Early marriage may also be seen as a strategy to avoid girls becoming pregnant outside marriage. However, the consequence of early marriage is serious, which can violate the rights of adolescence, both in this generation and the next. If affects the education and well being of millions of their daughter and has a knock on effect for the proverty and development of communities.Simply put, early marriage can violate their basic rights to a childhood, to an education , to good health and make decisions about their own lives.

Additionally, having babies too young , brides of early marriage are at an extremely high risk for fistulas and they have a higher risk of being infected with sexually transmitted diseases and at an increased risk of chronic , anemia, and obesity. Statistically, child brides have a bride risk of becoming a victim of domestic violence , sexual abuse and murder.

In order to prevent the early marriage , we should raise consciouness about the extensiveness of early marriage and seriously consider the potential problems it relates.Government should establish safe spaces for girls to gather and socialize to increase access to economic skills and resources. Additionally , we should raise awareness for the health and rights implications of large spousal age differences and inter generational sex. Efforts should be taken to support married adolescent girls by descreasing their economic vulnerability offering schooling, civic participation and livelihoods oppurtunities , developing interventions to reduce their social isolation. Thank you