Question

Government of india has raised the marriageable age of female to 18 and of males to 21 years.suggest any two more measures adopted by government for this purpose

Answer 1

The minimum age of marriage for males is pegged at 21 as an indirect family planning method.

India was facing an overpopulation problem and the government needed some serious solutions. One of the first blame for the population problem went to the practice of early marriage. Marriage at one's teens opened the most fertile years of a man's and woman's reproductive life to reproduction and QED, a lot of babies.

So by raising the marriage age for men and women, the law made sure that men were past the peak of their libidinous teenage before they married, so that by the time they were in their 20s, the sexual frequency would be reduced enough for men to make less babies (since men were presumed to be THE initiators of sex in the patriarchial cultures).