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The History of Child Abuse - 0 views

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child marriage history Background India sexual abuse

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  • long-standing Indian practice
  • passed in 1929 trying to outlaw it, the government was overwhelmed by men insisting that early marriage was an absolute necessity, since little girls were naturally very sexual and must be married early if they are to be restrained from seducing adults
  • "Cupid overtakes the hearts of girls...at an early age," they said. "A girl's desire for sexual intercourse is eight times greater than that of males."
    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 29 Apr 10
       
      this isn't backed up by *any* science, it's just ignorant opinion
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  • Indian mothers also often supported early marriage
  • admitting it was necessary in order to protect their little girls against rape in the family,
  • "they were afraid to leave their daughters at home, even for one afternoon, without a mother's eye and accessible to the men of the family."
  • The Indian subcontinent, in fact, still has many groups, such as the Baiga, where actual incestuous marriage is practiced, between fathers and daughters, between mothers and sons, between siblings and even between grandparents and their grandchildren--thus disproving the oft-repeated anthropological truism that "no known tribe has ever permitted incest" because if it were allowed society would surely cease functioning
  • . In many of these villages, the children move at the age of 5 or 6 from the incestuous activities of the family bed to spend the rest of their childhood in sex dormitories, where they are initiated by older youth and men into intercourse with a succession of other children, none for longer than three days at a time, under threat of gang rape
    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 29 Apr 10
       
      this is physically disgusting..
  • Childhood in China has historically had the same institutionalized rape rituals as in India, including the pederasty of boys, child concubinage, the castration of boys to be used sexually as eunuchs, marriage of young girls to a number of brothers, widespread boy and girl prostitution and the regular sexual use of child servants and slaves
  • Chaeli Brown on 29 Apr 10
     
    the title is self-explanatory.
Chaeli Brown

Global Action for Children - 0 views

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current approaches child marriage abuse issue

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    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 27 Apr 10
       
      well the fact that they are reporting it is sort of an upside...
  • educational and economic opportunities for girls can reduce child marriage
  • Child marriage can be ended, but only with a more concerted effort to ensure the public, in all countries, are aware of the terrible toll child marriage takes on girls and their future children
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  • Throughout the developing world, millions of girls are married off to virtual strangers while they are still just children
  • as young as six or seven years old
  • girls themselves rarely have any say
  • do not even know or fully understand what is planned for them until they arrive at their husband’s home
  • child marriage is often considered a way to provide for a daughter’s future
  • economic gains through marrying off a daughter may also motivate poor parents
  • 100 million girls will be married before the age of 18 in the next decade alone
  • countries like Niger and Bangladesh, grinding poverty and adherence to tradition results in more than three out of every four girls being married off before they turn 18
  • pressured to bear children themselves long before their bodies are fully developed. Combined with lack of power, lack of information, and reduced access to health services, it can be disastrous
  • younger than 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s
  • pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for girls ages 15 to 19
  • can cause obstetric fistula (when a young mother’s vagina, bladder and/or rectum tear during childbirth
  • extremely dangerous for the infant
  • Children born to young girls are far more likely to perish than are children born to older mothers
  • girls’ access to formal and even non-formal education is greatly limited because of domestic burdens, childbearing, and social norms that view marriage and schooling as incompatible
  • Removal from school is often the first thing that will happen to a child bride
  • particularly tragic since primary education for girls is one of the most effective ways to fight the cycle of poverty and disease, reduce child death rates, improve nutrition, and promote democracy and development
  • vastly reduces girls’ access to resources like social support and autonomy
  • have little power relative to their husbands and parents-in-law, leaving them extremely vulnerable to abuse
  • twice as likely to report being beaten and three times as likely to report being forced to have sex than women who marry after 18 years of age
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Solutions and Programs to Prevent Child Marriage - 0 views

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child marriage cause and effect solution

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    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 27 Apr 10
       
      it's a start, but still not enough cause & effect
  • Girls who are able to complete primary school tend to marry later and have fewer children
  • Education is the most important key to helping end the practice of forced child marriages
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  • education may prove to be more successful in preventing child marriages than banning
  • Education of the parents is just as important as education of the children
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  • Teaching these young girls life skills, including reproduction and contraception information, how to have fun and how to play in sports, is proving to be a positive way to change the lives and futures of these adolescent girls
  • By providing more educational opportunities, India has been able to cut child marriage rates by up to two-thirds
Chaeli Brown

Turkish Child Bride Attempts Suicide After Marriage to 71-Year Old Man - 0 views

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turkish child marriage Background suicide

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  • The attempted suicide by a girl who is 54 years younger than her husband lights up once again the long-running controversy surrounding early marriages in Turkey, many of which are pursued for financial reasons according to one women’s rights organization. ‘I love my husband, but I did this because I was under pressure,’ says the 17-year-old girl
  • 17-year-old’s attempt at suicide less than a year after her family allowed her marriage to a wealthy businessmen
  • took an overdose of sleeping bills, blaming “internal family problems.”
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  • “This is a marriage for economic reasons, which is the general norm in many child marriages,”
  • “This suicide attempt should have been expected
  • Making a girl marry someone before she completes her mental and physical development – along with the subsequent early pregnancies – can cause many physical and mental problems.”
Chaeli Brown

Family of Dead Child Bride Wants Husband Executed - Yemen Post English Newspaper Online - 0 views

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yemen stakeholders child marriage

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  • The family of the child bride which almost a week after marrying to a man twice her age has demanded to execute the husband who raped the bride causing her internal bleeding
  • tragedy happened as the controversy over setting the minimum marriage age remains
  • Ilham Al-Ushe died on Friday of internal bleeding almost a week after her marriage
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  • The bride was married in an exchange deal that she married to the man whose sister married to Ilham's brother
  • Ilham arrived dead after suffering from genital bleeding
  • issue has grabbed the headlines and drawn criticism of rights activities
  • Parliament passed a draft law fixing the minimum age of marriage at 17 years for women and 18 years for men
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Saudi girl, 12, divorces 80-year-old husband - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com - 0 views

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Child Rights child marriage Stakeholders

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  • 12-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who successfully won a divorce from her 80-year-old husband
  • prompt the Arab kingdom to introduce a minimum marriage age
  • 11 when she was wed against her wishes to her father's cousin last year in an arranged marriage
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  • father was paid a $23,350 dowry
  • has been trying to get out of the marriage and took her case to court in Buraidah. She recently reached an agreement with her family, and the divorce will be settled privately rather than in the courts
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Child Brides - One Solution: Education . NOW | PBS - 0 views

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solution child marriage education Stakeholders

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  • the rate of child marriage, while still high, has begun to decline
  • due to community-based strategies to delay or prevent early marriage. Of these, educating girls emerges as one of the most important
  • International Center for Research on Women reports that girls with eight or more years of schooling are less likely to marry early than girls with zero to three years of education
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  • Secondary education has been shown to be most important for reducing the prevalence of early marriage
  • access to primary education is also important
  • Educating girls delivers benefits to an entire community through increased economic productivity, better health and later marriag
  • world missed the UN's initial 2005 target to achieve this goal, but awareness of the importance of girls' education and support for funding it is growing
Chaeli Brown

Child Marriage Factsheet: State of World Population 2005 - UNFPA - 0 views

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child marriage statistics unfpa Background

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  • Impoverished parents often believe that child marriage will protect their daughters. In fact, however, it results in lost development opportunities, limited life options and poor health
  • almost exclusively within the context of poverty and gender inequality, it also has social, cultural and economic dimensions
  • Married adolescents have been neglected from the global adolescent reproductive health agenda because of the incorrect assumption that their married status ensures them a safe passage to adulthood
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  • Married adolescents are typified by: Large spousal age gaps Limited social support, due to social isolation Limited educational attainment and no schooling options Intense pressure to become pregnant Increased risk of maternal and infant mortality Increased vulnerability to HIV and other STIs Restricted social mobility/freedom of movement Little access to modern media (TV, radio, newspapers) Lack of skills to be viable to the labour market
  • It is no coincidence that the same countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East that have high rates of child marriage are those with:
  • The East Asian “Miracles” like Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand that have successfully eradicated the harmful traditional practice of child marriage are characterized by: Economic growth and opportunity Declines in birth and death rates Increase in educational and employment options for girls
  • High poverty rates, birth rates and death rates Greater incidence of conflict and civil strife Lower levels of overall development, including schooling, employment, health care
  • In some countries, more than half of all girls under 18 are married. Specifically, the percentage of girls (aged 15 to 19) married by age 18 is: 5
  • 50 per cent in India
Chaeli Brown

Child marriage film marriage documentary engagement young before birth child Unicef you... - 1 views

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cause and effect child marriage film

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  • Chaeli Brown on 26 Apr 10
     
    The official website of a documentary about child marriage
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Forced child marriage tests Pakistan law - 0 views

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stakeholders Background child marriage

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  • They discovered they'd been promised in marriage to their enemies when they were children, a practice in Pakistan known as vani
  • When we grew up we came to know that a great injustice had been done to us," says Abda Khan, now 18. "Vani is equal to a murder. If we were to marry those boys, it would be the same as killing us.
  • The bride spends her life paying for the crime of her male relatives
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  • "She's just like a slave in their house," says community activist Zia-Ullah Khan, "because she comes from the enemy's family, and the people took vani to compensate their revenge. They try to give pain to the girl and her family members."
  • No one knows how many women suffer this fate in Pakistan
  • Few resist it
  • Chaeli Brown on 23 Apr 10
     
    These three girls were sent to marry their families enemy as settlement
Chaeli Brown

HC to decide on marriage of Muslim minor - 1 views

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marriage Muslim child

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  • 15-year-old daughter's marriage was stalled by the Mumbai police
  • The police also booked several members of both the families for violating the provisions of the Restraint of Child Marriage Act, 1929
  • The girl was later produced before the Child Welfare Committee
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  • Muslim Personal Laws would prevail over other enactments in conflicting situations concerning personal matters
  • Muslim Personal Law has recognised the age at attainment of puberty or the age of 15 for adulthood for personal matters like marriage , alimony and divorce
  • contended that the restrictions on minor 's marriage as provided in the Child Marriage Restraint Act were not applicable to Muslims in India
    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 13 Apr 10
       
      Good to know that they not only booked people directly involved in the marriage, but everyone who violated the act
    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 13 Apr 10
       
      ...Muslims have their own specific set of laws in India?
    • Chaeli Brown
      Chaeli Brown on 13 Apr 10
       
      So basically the girl has no say and it takes a petition & police arrests to get her out of this situation?
  • Chaeli Brown on 13 Apr 10
     
    This is a case of a 15 year old girl who was saved from a child marriage when the police intervened.
Chaeli Brown

Access World News - Document Display - 2 views

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Child marriage stories

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  • Chaeli Brown on 09 Apr 10
     
    This is a case of a 15 year old girl who was saved from a child marriage when the police intervened.
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