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Since 1st April 1930 child marriage has banned in India and may be citizens thought it is prank since the law was came onto force on 1st April that even till now in some communities girls are married before the legal age.
These kinds of marriages are really most disrespectful and disadvantageous for a girl. There are many reasons for child marriage but most of the time it is done as for some families girls are burden and marriage is best way as their secure future. We all know how in our society marriage is the best solution for all the problems.
Next is poverty and it’s also the reason as girls are someone who has to be excluded from the list of responsibilities and as we know girls are always the heaviest responsibility so she has to be married off .
Then comes the lack of education again. Sad to say that maybe people don’t even know how a marriage affects a girl’s life. At the very young age girls are subjected to marriage which comes along with no consensual sex. The first thing that is affected is a girl’s mental health in these cases. Earlier there were child marriages but a girl was sent back to her maternal home after some years till she attained the right age for these things but later girls were married as soon as puberty hit but we need to understand that girls should be ready mentally for marriage and further things.
Thus due to this girls are subjected to various abuses and are suppressed and they don’t have anything that they can rely on. Marital rape , doemstic abuse , mental torture and so on are the problems they have to face.
They are also forced to bear a child at a young age and thus we also see many deaths happening due to early pregnancy . Thus I think we need to make people more aware . Though we have almost stopped it, when it comes to tribal communities they still practice these things.