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From a Child to a Child Bride
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With the fluid, and changing boundaries between childhood adolescence and adulthood, we should not be surprised if children who fall within that age-range look on us adults bemused. The problem is, it is the child-adolescent-adult who is being caught between their needs and the needs of those who have passed that developmental stage. The issue of child marriage has raised its head as another play-off by pro-feminist media, in its ongoing persuit to whittle away practices that are not nedessarily Islamic.
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Should Girls be Allowed to Marry at Age 16?
The recent passing of the constitutional amendment bill that allows Malawian girls to be married at the age of 16 has attracted much criticism from rights campaigners. This law allows children under the age of 18 who cannot even obtain a driving license to legally marry. Of those opposing the bill are...
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Marriageable Age Around the World
Assumptions are made in terms of what is accepted on the basis of the law, and not on the needs of the basis of the adolescent child. What tends to be misunderstood today, is that lifestyles have helped in delaying the kind of emotional maturity that was once more commonplace amongst...
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Child Brides in Nigeria
In northern Nigeria , it is said that 45 percent of girls are married by the time they are 15, and 73 percent are married by the time they are 18. Most of these girls are made to marry men from their parents' age group. Northern Nigerian states, despite the ruling against child...
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Child Marriage
A lot of organizations like the United Nations keeps stating that the main cause for the health problems that occur to the young girls while pregnant and during labor is because of their age where as it can be argued , the main cause is poverty and lack of medical ...
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Stolen Innocence
Education is always a key factor in ending any social chaos and it is indeed an important element in this case too. Education has various faces and not all types of education are taught at school. In this particular case one of the most important traits that has to be acquired…
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Young, Pregnant, and Unmarried
iIt was late in 2007 that the Population Action International report revealed that Britain has the worst record in teenage pregnancy in Europe. Between 2004 and 2007, 23,556 girls under the age of consent (18 years) became pregnant in England and Wales. Twenty girls aged 13 to 15 become pregnant everyday. Of the 23,556 pregnancies, 13,474 ended in abortion. Young British women who are sexually active may find themselves a part of the latest attempt to...
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