Dropout because of child marriage in India!
Of the over 21,800 girls who had dropped out of school before the
2019-20 school year, just over 13% girls did so as they were required for house
work and almost 7% did so as they were married off even though child marriage
is illegal
Early marriages and chores at home are key reasons why girls drop out of school, The National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) indicates. Of the over 21,800 girls who had dropped out of school before the 2019-20 school year, just over 13% girls did so as they were required for house work and a lmost 7% did so as they were married off even though child marriage is illegal. When it comes to paid work, the percentage of boys who dropped out for work is higher when compared to girls. A total of 21,851 girls and 20,084 boys had dropped out of school before the 2019- 20 school year.
How does child marriage affect education in India?
Child marriage ends
childhood. It negatively influences children’s
rights to education, health and protection. These consequences impact not just
the girl directly, but also her family and community.
A girl who is married as a child is more likely to be out of school and not earn money and contribute to the community. She is more likely to experience domestic violence and become infected with HIV/AIDS. She is more likely to have children when she is still a child. There are more chances of her dying due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Estimates suggest that each year, at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married in India. Nearly 16 per cent adolescent girls aged 15-19 are currently married.
While the prevalence of girls getting married before age 18 has declined from 47 per cent to 27 per cent between 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 it is still too high.
The significant progress in the reduction of child marriages in India has contributed to a large extent to the global decrease in the prevalence of the practice. The decline may be the result of multiple factors such as increased literacy of mothers, better access to education for girls, strong legislation and migration from rural areas to urban centres. Increased rates of girls’ education, proactive government investments in adolescent girls, and strong public messaging around the illegality of child marriage and the harm it causes are also among the reasons for the shift.
How does child marriage affect health?
A girl who marries
early is more likely to give birth before her body is ready, presenting complications
that will jeopardize her health for the rest of her life.
Impact of child marriage on Indian economy
Due to dropouts because of child marriage many students lose opportunity to earn money and raise economy of India. Child marriage negatively affects the Indian economy and can lead to an intergenerational cycle of poverty. Girls and boys married as children more likely lack the skills, knowledge and job prospects needed to lift their families out of poverty and contribute to their country’s social and economic growth. Early marriage leads girls to have children earlier and more children over their lifetime, increasing economic burden on the household.
Child marriage is estimated to cost economies at least 1.7 percent of their GDP. It increases total fertility of women by 17 percent, which hurts developing countries battling high population growth. As per IRCW study, the welfare benefit in ending child marriage is estimated to be $22.1 billion globally in the first year (2015). This number increases to $566 billion annually by 2030, for a cumulative welfare benefit of more than $4 trillion. Considering how one out of three such marriages happen in India, this impact is huge on India. Decreased household sizes would lead to an increased availability of funds which then could be used to pay for food, education, health care and other expenses for other members of the household.
Child marriage and mental health
Five of the studies
included in our review estimated the effect of child marriage on various aspects
of mental health. These studies relied on cross-sectional data collected from
Ghana, Iran, Ethiopia, Niger and the United States. Women in the United States
who married before the age of 18 were more likely to report experiencing a wide
range of mood, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders in adulthood when
compared to those who married at later ages .The authors of a small study from
a single county in Iran found that women who married as children reported more
depressive symptoms than those who married at the age of 18 or older .John,
Edmeades, and Murithi examined the relationship between child marriage and
multiple domains of psychological well-being in Niger and Ethiopia . The
authors found that marriage before the age of 16 was correlated with poorer
overall psychological well-being, but no evidence that marriage between the
ages of 16 and 17 was associated with poorer outcomes when compared to women
who married at the age of 18 or later . In Ghana, child marriage seemed to
protect against measures of stress. The Ghanaian study also found no indication
of differences in levels of social support between women who married before the
age of 18 and those who married after their 18th birthdays, though these odds
ratio estimates were very imprecise
How to stop it ?
Contact a women cell
of local police. ...
File for Domestic
Violence under PWDW Act. ...
Contact National
commission for women. ...
Contact a lawyer. ...
Suit for annulment of
marriage in district court or family court.
What to do if you do not live in India?
If you want to help
kids in India and stop child marriage you can donate to our organization and we
will do everything we can to stop child marriage in India
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We believe that by
starting small and working with one community at a time, we can begin to make
changes that will spread gradually throughout India, all the while working hard
to create and maintain a self-sustaining society. We aim to facilitate the
fulfilment of the millennium development goals, set out by the United Nations,
by ensuring that every household in India has unimpeded access to proper WASH
facilities.
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