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The Narendra Modi government in March announced its decision to increase the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years under the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
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Read More »Mala* (name changed to protect identity) from a village in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh had always dreamed of getting married. In July, however, when her parents told the 13-year-old that she was getting married to a man much older than herself, she panicked. Her father, who had lost his job during the pandemic, was struggling to make ends meet and the family thought it best to marry the daughter off. A student of Class VIII, Mala ran away from her home and told her friends from school about it. Thankfully, the girls from Mala’s school had recently attended a workshop with a local child rights NGO, which had given them a helpline number. With the help of her classmates, Mala managed to inform her teachers and the NGO officials, who intervened to stop the marriage. The incident happened months after India decided to raise the age of marriage for children, in order to eliminate child marriage.
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Read More »Studies show that women who are married off under a certain age and give early birth, conceive stunted, anaemic or malnourished babies, and themselves face nutrient deficiencies, high miscarriage rates and problems in future pregnancies. However, the impact of child marriage is not limited to one generation alone. Renu Singh, Director, Young India Research Centre, tells Outlook that studies show significant linkages between the age of a woman at the time of conception and “inter-generational transition of poverty”—where poverty is passed on from one generation to the next. Women who are married under a certain age and give birth early, conceive stunted, anaemic or malnourished babies, and themselves face complications. Early marriages directly impact women’s participation in the labour force. Both secondary and primary research and national datasets reveal multiple issues that women face in labour market transition, in cases of early marriages. “There is also a direct impact on a woman’s ability to access higher education, which in turn has a significant impact on her employment opportunities. Thus, we see the cyclical damage of marrying girls at a young age,” Singh states.
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Read More »Issues relating to gender equality and women’s rights can’t work in silos. A mechanism to monitor child marriages not only requires adequate child protection officers, gender-sensitised police force and government staff, but also entire communities at the gram panchayat levels who are sensitised, and with children as the advocates. Legislation is only a beginning. Incidentally, the Centre, by its own admission, relied on a 2017 SC judgment in a marital rape exemption case, in which the court had ruled that intercourse with a minor wife is rape, simply by virtue of her being a minor. The verdict, though landmark in terms of child-protection, cleverly side-stepped the question of women’s consent, on which debates supporting the criminalisation of marital rape have been anchored. Ali points out that by making marriage under 21 illegal, the legal system has once again denied women their agency for consent. “Not all marriages are forced. Some women choose to get married, say to get out of abusive paternal homes or financial stress. Making marriage a punitive matter can become a very messy affair.”
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