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Indian society has changed a lot from pre-independence times. However, some stigmas and ill
notions are still prevalent. Large numbers of children don't go to school and child marriage is
still prevalent in rural areas.
Stand up to these ill practices and be a social activist on your own. Talk to the helpers in your
school. Find out if they have faced any kind of social pressure from their community. Make a
questionnaire based on their family background, their problems and ill practices happening in
their hometowns. Discuss with your classmates and see if there is a pattern in the issues these
people face. If possible also figure out a solution for them among your classmates.
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Explanation:
Worldwide, an estimated 650 million girls and women alive today were married before their 18th birthday.
Globally, the total number of girls married in childhood is estimated at 12 million per year.
South Asia is home to the largest number of child brides with more than 40 per cent of the global burden (285 million or 44 percent of the global total), followed by sub-Saharan Africa (115 million or 18 percent of the global total).
The practice of child marriage has declined around the world. In the past decade, the proportion of women who were married as children decreased by 15 per cent, from 1 in 4 (25%) to approximately 1 in 5 (21%), that’s around 25 million child marriages that have been prevented. Increasing rates of girls’ education, proactive government investments in adolescent girls, and strong public messaging around the illegality of child marriage and the harm it causes are among the reasons for the shift.
In South Asia, a girl’s risk of marrying in childhood has declined by more than a third, from nearly 50 per cent a decade ago to 30 per cent today, largely driven by great strides in reducing the prevalence of child marriage in India.
Increasingly, the global burden of child marriage is shifting from South Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa, due to both slower progress and a growing population. Of the most recently married child brides, close to 1 in 3 are now in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to 1 in 7 25 years ago.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there is no evidence of progress at all, with levels of child marriage as high as they were 25 years ago.
Child marriage occurs in high-income countries too. In the United States, the majority of all 50 States have an exception in law that allows children to marry before the age of 18. As of 2017, in the European Union, only four countries tolerate no exceptions to the minimum age of 18 for marriage.
Marrying in childhood has repercussions across many areas of a girl’s life. For example, in Ethiopia, the majority of young women who married in childhood gave birth before their 20th birthday and child brides were less likely to receive skilled care during their last pregnancy and delivery. In addition, married adolescent girls in Ethiopia are three times more likely to be out of school than their unmarried peers.
In order to eliminate child marriage by 2030 as set out in the Agenda for Sustainable Development, global progress would need to be 12 times faster than the rate observed over the past decade.