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Minimum age of Marriage for women
Intro
CI
Task force
examine the correlation of
age of mother and
motherhood with health
medical well-being
nutritional status
of the mother
and neonate
Interfaith Marriages
Sociologists believe
mixed marriages
inter-religion or
inter-race
help in socio-cultural
assimilation of communities
and facilitate better integration
into society
MB
BP/GE/IS
examine
possibility of increasing
age of marriage for women
from 18 to 21 years
gender-neutrality
which reduce the risks
of early pregnancy
associated with
child mortality rates
affects the health of the mother
if increase minimum age
IS
legal protection
increase age of marriage
hurdles for young women´s
access to reproductive and
sexual healthcare
because of POSCO Act
limited to 18 years of age
artificially expand
no of married persons
deemed underage and
criminalise them
render underage
married girls
without legal protection
PCM Act
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
played as a weapon
to punish their daughter
for elopement
used conjunction with other laws
to punish boys
love marriage
Personal laws
various religious
deal with marriage
poses challenges
End up
criminalising and exacerbating
existing vulnerabilities
of dalits and Adivasi communities
in rural india
instead of empowering women
BP
Improve maternal health
Increase
age at first marriage
age at first birth
girls education
promising approach
to improve maternal
child nutrition
empowering girls
lack of safety which
from poverty and
main drivers of early marriage
well-resourced measures
increase girls access
to education and health
enable opportunities
not just delay marriage
but lead to
long term positive health
education outcomes
awareness about safe sex
retain girls in education system
which delay marriage
need to address
gendered and caste-based disparities
instead of blanket laws
with no consideration of
the principles of social justice
NHRC
National Human Rights Commission
showed
higher education levels
leads to delay marriage
Strongly recommended
amended Right to Education Act,2009
applicable upto of 18 years
Interfaith Marriages
MB
D/F CAP-TAW
Study by International Institute for Population Sciences
Interreligious marriages
greater among people
in urban areas
at 2.9%
compared to
1.8 % for rural areas
Punjab
highest mixed marriages at 7.8%
because
smiliar religious customs
and practices followed by
Sikhism and Hinduism.
Jharkhand
at 5.7%
AP
at 4.9%
Lowest percentage
mixed marriages
in Bengal
at 0.3%
Chattisgarh
at 0.6%
Rajasthan
0.7 %
D/F CAP-TAW
IFPRI study
children born
to Adolescent mothers (15-19 years)
have low BMI
54% have anaemia
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
5-11% more likely to be stunted and low-weight
than born to young adults (20-24 years)
Among teenage mothers
lower education
poor economic status
has strongest link
with child's height and weight measurements
Child Marriages Data
estimated 650 million girls
married as children
By 2030,150 million girls
under the age of 18 will be married
India
Married girls by 18
accounted 46% in the lowest income groups
UNICEF about India
estimates suggest
every year, at least 1.5 million girls
married under age of 18 years
home of largest child brides
Nearly 16%
adolescent girls
aged btw 15-19
currently married
CJ and IMP cases
Sarda Act
Known as Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929
passed by Lord Irwin
Act fixed minimum
age for girls as 14 years
boys as 18 years
Applied throughout British India
it was resulted
social reform movement in India
Alimony Judgement
abandoned wife and children
entitled to maintenance
from the date
she applies for it in court of law
CON
GI/FU
Legal commitment
enact prevent child marriage is necessary
simultaneously work towards
keeping girls in school
invest
in economic
social empowerment
women and girls
SBCC
targeted social and behaviour change communication
Campaigns to put end of this
harmful practice
DOP
inevitable reality
marriage happening
before completion of higher education
state of poor maternal health
one of the root causes
high levels of child stunting
and wasting in India
Context
Acc to UNICEF India is home
to world´s largest no of child brides
with 1.5 billion girls below 18 married
S&E
Child Marriage (CM)
trinity of the
pandemic, poverty and patriarchy
has led surge in child marriage
S&T
India making progress
rising school enrolment of girls
under-18 marriages
had come down
from 47% in 2005-06
to 27% in 2015-16
correlation btw
keeping girls in school
and delaying marriage