World focus magazine

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world focus magazine Published this article page no 133  Women empowerment o Education: Several girls are forced to drop their studies for marriage, and increasing the minimum legal age required to marry to 21 would give them time to pursue their studies and offer an opportunity to pursue higher education. o HealthPhysical health: Early marriage denies girls the right to the highest attainable standard of general and reproductive health. An early age of marriage, and consequent early pregnancies, have adverse impacts on nutritional levels of mothers and their children. It also has an impact on IMR and MMR. 69✓ Psychological health: Teenage brides may not be mature enough to deal with household responsibilities. This may reflect badly on the mental health of such women. o Economic participation: Marriage at a young age means not even a quarter of women in India get into the labor force despite accounting for almost half of the 1.3 billion population. o Reducing child marriage: The recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS) revealed that child marriage has come down marginally from 27% in 2015-16 to 23% in 2019-20 in the country. The government has been pushing to bring this down further. Raising the age of marriage can aid in enhanced awareness about the repercussion of child marriages and reducing the same further. Criticism of raising the age of marriage world focus magazine buy.




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