The Negative Consequences Of Child Marriage

How saddening it is to see that in this modern era, when every single thing is counted on a scientific basis, we sadly still meet this harmful cultural practice-child marriage exists even though it only causes disadvantages for one side of the party. As we all know, child marriage has been a global problem in which need to be eliminated for the sake of our young generations. Generally speaking, child marriage itself is related to child betrothal and forced early marriage because out-of-wedlock births. In most cases of child marriages, only one marriage-partner is a child and usually the female. Child marriages, conducted by the survey of United Nation and many nongovernmental agencies, are usually girls from rural areas who married those from

Little do these girls’ relatives know things that happen to these youngsters after marriage’s process. As a result, story by story was told as we have expected, every teenage girl who has involved in this malignant practice turns to be the subject of violence of either from their husband or their new family. Since their marriage-partner is way older than they really are, the desire to preserve the bloodline is somehow stronger that the highest possibility occurred to these girls is they are pressured into early and repeated pregnancies which has harmful consequences on both mother and the future baby. Of course, it might raise the number of sexual abuse as well as the chance for them to get infected by sexually transmitted infections, including HIV got from their own older husband who already has sex experiences. It brings about another problem from the woman’s right too, that is, their freedom is stolen away from them. The moment these young girls step in her new family, they now have a new responsibility to take care of the house and her husband’s family, to put it another way, she has to devote herself for her new households and it leads

The liberation of women has not been completely realized and a number of men still jealously guard their rights and so does some cultural beliefs that still judges women as an economic burden which then cause the contribution and demands of women have been degraded and ignored. Since the complexity of this problem, child marriage’s practice cannot be stopped at once. Education is probably what these societies need the most because of being educated people can start to rethink that how these cultural beliefs work should be reconstructed and people should be helped to see the equality of women and men in a better insight and start to reconsider the impacts the youth will get by the child marriage and how unready these children to become a mother either physically or mentally. Government should be stricter to make an end for this worldwide problem at least to delay other child marriage’s practices whereas for those underage children who have coped in wedlock should be protected by us, we should support the government by keeping track on how these children in their new family are being treated. Certainly, if we ever found these children frequently being treated badly, we should report it to the authorities soon. Hopefully, these children are always safe