Early marriage is a global issue. It is quite common in the African and Asian countries. However, the consequence of early marriage is serious, which can violate the rights of adolescence, both in this generation and the next. It affects the education and well-being of millions of children and has a knock-on effect for the poverty and development of communities. Simply put, early marriage can violate children basic rights to a childhood, to an education, to good health and to make decisions about their own lives.
Early Marriage Leads To Tragedy For a Young Woman In Africa
The physical, emotional and social effects of early marriage are varied, but one of the most common outcomes is the withdrawal of girls from formal education. Traditionally people in some rural villages value marriage more than education of the girls. Many girls stop school because of getting married. Husbands of young wives are often older men, who expect their wives to follow tradition, stay at home and undertake household and child-care duties. Schools often have a policy of refusing to allow married or pregnant girls or girls with babies to return. So all the rules, timetables and physical conditions make it too difficult for a girl to attend school and perform her duties as wife and mother at the same time.
Besides education, personal maturity is another problem they have to face in the early marriage. While immature and irresponsible actions may sometimes seem funny before marriage, they can become serious pitfalls within the marriage bond. One of the surest signs of immaturity and irresponsibility in both young men and young women is a lack of willingness to do a reasonable share of work in a consistent, dependable way. A third potential problem of early marriage is the problem of growing apart. This simply means that while two young people in their middle teenage years have much in common, that in many cases, our ideals and goals change as we pass the teenage years, to such an extent that we may easily find ourselves married for life to a person with whom we will ultimately have very little in common.
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 higher risk of becoming a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and murder.
In order to prevent the early marriage, we should raise consciousness 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 of the health and rights implications of large spousal age differences and inter generational sex. Efforts should be taken to support married adolescent girls by decreasing their economic vulnerability, offering schooling, civic participation, and livelihoods opportunities, developing interventions to reduce their social isolation.
i think girls should not be given a lot of education after school coz they are going to end up in their husbands homes. most girls are not going to work but will just stay at home after getting married….
That type of thinking is out dated. Women are just as capable as men to run a household. Most men can’t deal with work and home without a women. Women can. Education is key for both sexes. Education will help both sexes with future problems.
girl they should think twice or even thrice..marriage is not a game..
raah?r u nuts.A girl should be given proper education.Womens r not for slavery of mens.They also have right to live as they wish and to get educated as much as they want ok……………………………………?
marriage is good.all they need to do all day is to work it out.
I think that the marriage represents half of our life
well for me i think Education is a MUST for every humanbeing , u cant just simply deprive a person from his right to learn, but the issue here is about early marriage which is an important issue , well for me , am WITH early marriage only if 2 things exist Love ( not forced to get married ) and Money ( being capable of supporting his wife and house ) ..
Education should be given to those who wants it, there shouldnt be any discrimination, in most cases women work harder and have more initiative than men,
marriage is not game. We have to persuade the goverment to consolidate of propagande the consequenses of early marriage,if we really wanna light it
MARRIAGE IS NOT BED OF ROSE FLOWERS
statutory marriages should be considered by all countries around the world, it allows girls and boys equal rights and opportunities to education and other rights such as employment becuase of age consideration. some types of education are such impediment in their department and create a big disabilities politically, economically and socially. Some of these are customary and child marriages.
Statutory marriages should be considered by all countries around the world, it allows girls and boys equal rights and opportunities to education and other rights such as employment because of age consideration.Some types ofmarriage are such an impediment in there development and creates a big disabilities politically,economically and socially. Some of these are customary and child marriages
Early marriage is a global issue but more or less a personal and local issue in the sense that it has eluded our young women the opportunity of giving back to the community what it offered them (education), we have the likes of John Sir-leaf of Liberia, the German chancellor, Hillary Clinton of USA, Dora Akunyili of Nigeria, to mention but a few. these people started little and managed their careers, why can’t our women think of being better than the aforementioned instead of early marriage, frankly, it diminishes their AI
marriage is a life time assignmnent, time should be taken before going into it
in my opinion marriage is a dual phenomonen . it can be an exitment or in anothr time it can be aproblem.
marriage is a life time assignmnent, time should be taken before going into it
Early marriage is a global issue but more or less a personal and local issue in the sense that it has eluded our young women the opportunity of giving back to the community what it offered them (education), we have the likes of John Sir-leaf of Liberia, the German chancellor, Hillary Clinton of USA, Dora Akunyili of Nigeria, to mention but a few. these people started little and managed their careers, why can’t our women think of being better than the aforementioned instead of early marriage, frankly, it diminishes their AI