Child Marriage is a Bane

[Shreya Shukla]

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Yes, it is true because it destroys little children life as it leaves a scar on their innocent souls and this lasts forever. In older times people had a notion that marrying their daughters early would make them a perfect bride by the time they grow up. They used to think that a girl is meant to be married and that is her final destination. No studies and career as these things are for boys. Women were thought to be slaves to men and not a wife or life partners. And worse was pregnancy at an early age. A child bears a child, even this feeling is chilling and she takes care of her child. Even today some people live with this kind of thought that girls should not be educated because finally, she has to marry and take care of their inlaws which is not wrong but should happen at the right time with a woman’s consent.
She is a human being and should be treated like one.

[Afshan Iqbal]

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It is estimated that each year, at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married in India, which makes it home to the largest number of child brides in the world. Nearly 16 percent of adolescent girls aged 15-19 are currently married. Uttar Pradesh is home to the largest population of child brides, with 36 million. Earlier, in India girls have been considered a burden on parents. Parents used to give their girl child to marriage by shoving off their responsibility towards a girl child. I believe this is the worst that any parent can do with their child. So, by any means child marriage is a bane. Child marriage takes away the childhood of a girl. Her education is compromised and it kills a girl’s personal goals and passions. At the age when a girl should get educated and dream about her career, she is handed the responsibility of marriage and family building. Child marriage is a tragedy. It leads to the trafficking and sale of girls. Child marriage is a hurdle for physical growth and leads to mental as well as physical health problems. The children become child laborers for family maintenance. It locks children into often abusive relationships. The immature girl child is pushed into a family system and there is a risk of under-age pregnancy. Underage pregnancy leads to premature births which may result in infant mortality and the death of mothers. Child marriage has devastating consequences and it’s a curse for the girls who are made to be bound in a nuptial relationship at such an early age. There are laws against child marriage but it isn’t enough. Everyone especially the people in rural areas needs to understand that child marriage is a bane. It needs to be stopped and it can happen if each one of us educates people about the effects of early marriage on children. It’s the year 2022 but still, a girl under 18 is married somewhere in the world every two seconds. Child marriage is a bane for society and it will affect everyone so we need to make sure that it stops.

[038 deepika Singh]

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Child marriage is a curse. It snatches away childhood from children’s life. Child marriages has been prevailing in our country since a long time. India is estimated to have over 24 million child brides. 40% of the world’s 60 million child marriages take place in India according to the National Family Health Survey. The most common reasons for underage marriages includes poverty, illiteracy, financial constraints, religious and social traditions. Most of the girls drop out from schools and colleges without completing their education and are married off to men. Having incomplete education makes them financially dependent on their husband and limits their activities to performing house chores and raise their kids. Married teenage girls who are uneducated are more prone to sexual and domestic abuse than married adult and educated woman. The government of India has proposed raising the minimum legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. Currently, the minimum legal age for women to marry is 18 years and the same for men is 21 years. The bill has not been passed yet due to resistance from several parties.

Despite of all these efforts many girls in rural areas are married much before the age of eighteen, they become mothers at an early age when their bodies are not even ready for it, citing several health issues. Child marriage is a violation of human rights and child rights and is surely a bane to our society.

[Aditi Sahu]

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Child marriage, another flaw of our society. According to the law, the legal age for a person to get married is 21 for now, but it wasn’t the same before. People don’t even care about how old their children are, and force them to tie a knot with another child, or worse, a middle aged adult. Actually it’s not even forced, how would a child of age 10 or 5 or in worst cases 1 or 2 years know what they’re doing? They are just following some random things which their elders told them to do.

Some would find it funny but it’s disgusting to think that a one year old child, who barely knows how to speak, and obviously doesn’t know anything about this world, is forced to be someone’s husband/ wife. And it mostly targets the female population where the girl is treated as a worker or servant and who just came to do the house chores and to give birth so that their family name would continue. She loses her own identity and learns to just follow the tasks given to her like a robot.

Though our generation is responding much better against this ill-practice but the question rises that why it still exists. We should spread more awareness against this issue specially in local and village areas of our country so that this bane of our society will be vanished and we will take a step forward towards a developed nation.

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