Friday, November 23, 2018

Early Marriage / Premature Marriage / Child Marriage

Early Marriage


Early marriage is an act of getting married at a tender [কোমল] age when the individual is not fully mature [পরিপক্ক] to take responsibility or not reaching the proper adult age. In Bangladesh, the legal age for marriage is 21 for boys and 18 for girls. Despite this legislation [আইন প্রণয়ন], the average age for marriage of girls is 16.4 years. We find that illiteracy, poverty, selfish attitude, unconsciousness [অজ্ঞানতা], religious misinterpretation [অপব্যাখ্যা], superstitions [কুসংস্কার], social customs, discriminatory [বৈষম্য] attitude [ভাব] towards girls, wrong idea about girls education, dowry system, etc. are some of the causes of premature [অকাল] marriage. Early marriage is seen as a way to “protect” a girl’s sexuality in an unsafe environment. The effects of premature marriage are, no doubt, harmful for health and mind of a female child. The girls cannot adjust with the new environment of their in-law’s house. They cannot serve their husbands’ families properly. In such a condition of their health, weak baby is born with various complications [জটিলতা]. As a result, it leads to family conflict [দ্বন্দ্ব] and misunderstanding. Sometimes, premature marriage leads to divorce, suicide, and unnatural death. To encourage [উৎসাহ] female education and to discourage [নিরুৎসাহিত] early marriage our government has taken some positive steps, such as giving stipends to girls, recruiting [নিয়োগ] more female teachers etc. To prevent [প্রতিরোধ] this punishable offense [অপরাধ], the conscious people should come forward. The parents should be made aware [সচেতন] of the bad effects of premature marriage. Different mass media can play an important role in solving the problem. To sum up, because of negative effect on young people’s development as well as marriage itself, people should not get married early.

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