Child Marriage Is A Violation Of Human Rights

Arranged Marriages have been around since time can remember. An arranged marriage is a marital union between a man and a woman who were selected to be wedded together by a third party. Historically, arrange marriages were the main way to marry. In certain parts of the world, it is still the primary approach. There are two types of arrange marriages. The first is a traditional marriage where the children can, with strong objections, refuse to marry their soon to be spouse. In a forced marriage, the children have no say in the matter. Bread Givers shows an excellent representation of the pressures on children from their parents to be married against their will.

Almost 60% of girls are married by 16. Women activists say up to 80 percent of marriages in poor rural areas are either forced or arranged.

Stolen childhood is a side effect of early marriage. In poor and undeveloped countries is common to see weddings between adolescent and even children. Often the parents choose and their childhood is interrupted from their rights. As a married person the child has to perform activities that they are not psychologically or physically prepared. This happens to boys but girls suffer the most. Some child brides are as young as 8 to 9 years old, sometimes they marry much older men. The poverty makes the young brides to leave the school and start

Child marriage in the States is a serious problem. The current law for child marriage states that you must be at least eighteen years old to marry. However, state laws make exceptions if minors have parental consent. Due to the lack of awareness in this topic thirty-three states and two counties in the U.S. reported that between 2000-2015 there were a total of 170,363 minors that were married. Of which, six were twelve-year-olds, fifty-one were thirteen-year-olds, nine hundred eighty-five was fourteen years old. Not only is this number increasing but it is also alarming. The main reasons for child marriage are poverty, gender inequality, tradition/culture, education, and insecurity. Most of the child marriages happen in rural or backward areas of the country. The main reason for this is poverty for sure. Parents who have a daughter but don't earn as much choose this method to give them a better life. For the boys, the marriage does not take place but poverty triggers child labor. Another main reason behind this activity is gender inequality. Even today there are lots of countries that consider

For hundreds of years young children were married off early in life sometimes 12 years old for girls, and 14 years old for boys. So why doesn’t that happen now? This simply is because starting in the early 1900s the age “limit” as some would say started increasing. Now instead of having to be 12 or 14, a person has to be anywhere between 15 and 21 to get married. Some of the reasons why this change occurred is compulsory state schooling, child labor laws, and studies showing the negative effects of early in life marriages (Dahl).

For thousands of years, parents have chosen their children's spouses; hopefully with some success. Some countries still practice the tradition today. India turn most, if not all, of the wedding decision over to the Patriarchs of the groom. In other countries only a portion of the country's population practice it: even though the urban areas are controlled by the government many chinese dwelling in rural farming areas still practice arranged marriages. In the United States of America people have moved on to the idea of letting the young adults choose their own marriages, but do children make the same choices as their parents? It is often the idea that younger adults will make the wrong choices in marriage; however, marriage in today’s world

Kingston, many girls are forced into marriages by being told it is the right thing to do. In summary, underage arranged marriages are very dangerous and unfair to the children who are placed under those circumstances while they haven’t even reached the capacity to comprehend what they want.

Women’s rights have always been, and will most likely continue to be, an extremely controversial issue. There are many individuals that, still to this day, do not believe that men and women are equal and therefore, shouldn’t be treated as such. However, despite the constant opposition, women’s rights have come a long way over the last several decades. During the 20th century alone, women gained some of their most monumental rights, in my opinion. Some of these rights include, but are not limited to having the right to; vote, be payed the same amount as men for equal work, and not be discriminated against due to their sex, religion, race, etc. Also during the 20th century, women were granted reproductive rights, which I will be focusing on for the duration of this paper.

Girls all over the world are forced into marriages due to financial necessity, tradition and to ensure their future. Most of these girls married are at a young age: “One third of the world’s girls are married before the age of 18 and 1 in 9 are married before the age of 15”( “Child Marriage Facts and Figures”). The young ages of those being married reveal how crucial it is to resolve this problem. When child marriage occurs the parents of the bride usually chose the groom for their daughters; and these grooms can be three times older than the young brides. Some children are brought into the world of marriage at the of 8 or sometimes less depending on their cultural views. The following can be used to help reduce the impact of early

In Afghan society, a forced marriage is when either the man or women is married against one’s will. This includes childhood brides and young women who are sold from their family in order to pay off debt. Adolescents that are forced into marriages in Afghanistan are consistently mistreated and abused in their households. In the article “Afghanistan: Women, Socially Bound

Source 1: The most important information to me, from this source is the reason that the girls are being forced to marry. This article states, “They are among 39,000 girls forced into marriage

For hundreds of years, society has considered marriage as the only legitimate way to beget children. However, as time progresses families and marriage grow farther apart as different social classes have differing opinions as to what constitutes a “good“ family dynamic.

We cannot just condemn people involved in child marriages as cruel monsters—it is much a much more complex issue based upon ancient customs, poverty, and an overall lack of education. Cultures must evolve to understand that child marriages are dangerous and improper, and that women are equal to and independent of men. I have also learned that the issue of child brides is not widely known and that there are few books dedicated to the topic to be easily found. Future research I would be interested in about child brides would include answering the questions: What can be done to help educate people about the risks of early marriage and thus end the practice? What are the psychological effects of early marriage? How many child brides are readily accepting of their marriages? Are there places for wives escaping abusive marriages go? Why does early marriage so often occur in cultures that practice Islam? Where does the obsession with virginity come from and why does it

The world is becoming a place where one citizenship or obtain money is a good solution for having a better future and some prey are young people and American citizens who are cheated and fall in love. Every year in the united states, young people is forced to marry because being pregnant or their religion. Some religions push young people to marry against their will. In the United States is allowed to marry before the age of 18 with the approval of their parents, the legal problem enters when they are forced to marry against their will. Another situation that is similar to forced marriage is arranged marriage, but it is a little different between both. When an arranged marriage exists, it is

Child marriage is a marriage that occurs between two people where one or two of the partners is under 18. While boys are also married under the age of 18, girls far outnumber boys in child marriages. It is usually forced and occurs often to girls who are ages 12 to16 years old[2]. The husband is also often several years older than his wife, sometimes even