Intan Madsen's List: Justice Project - Teen Pregnancy

• Indian culture and tradition.
• the parents or the family elders choose the future spouse for the would-be bride or groom
• rranged marriage, the consent of the prospective bride or groom holds primary importance
• Arranged marriages are neatly woven into the fabric of the Indian society
• 95% of the marriages in India are arranged by the parents or family
• Most of the Indian youths still strongly endorse arranged marriages
• 21st century most of the Indians prefer arranged marriages to love marriages
• 70% of the Indian youths think that their parents should fix their marriages

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• Jammu and Kashmir Yateem Trust, a non-governmental organisation, has arranged marriages of 422 young widows, orphans and poor girls over the last 15 months
• 500 orphans in eight orphanage homes and 2,500 families of identified widows are presently being adopted by the trust

  • All possible assistance and care will be provided to them
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• The trust got financial assistance of Rs 4.05 crore from people last year while the expenditure was Rs 4.25 crore,
• The trust has 70 branches across the state including in far-flung areas like Tangdhar, Doda, Balisa, Kishtwar and Uri
• an orphanage and a school are being constructed at Sopore for which government has assured donation of land

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• The old concept of marriage was a narrow one which limited the progress of a girl child
• a female child was always directed towards household values
• learn to cook and sew at an early age and school dropouts were hurriedly married so as to discourage any probability of elopement
• This was a very orthodox value which was followed by many village folks
• Matrimony is very confusing to little minds
• Elders expect them to obey and cherish customs
• heir freedom is much curbed and they get into the bearing children and taking care of a huge family at a tender age
• During India’s freedom struggle, many leaders opposed child marriage and made an emphatic display through street plays and slogans to ban the same
• eople still believe in child marriage in certain parts of India
• India is emerging as a dynamic country with many feats

  • ike Chandrayan launch, achievements in international sports and winning beauty pageants, the problem of child marriage and dowry still stays and is not totally eradicated

  • ike Chandrayan launch, achievements in international sports and winning beauty pageants, the problem of child marriage and dowry still stays and is not totally eradicated
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• Children should be given the wealth of education; their health should be supported and cared for
• Nutrition is vital for a girl child and often over looked owing to early motherhood and related gynecological problems

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• more people getting educated and they concern many things before the couple get marriage
• Religion maybe a conflict in the marriage depending on what people think
• show a factor for young people getting marriage in our early history
• religious turn themselves to against the teen marriage because people get more educated and know that the message give to first generation is wrong
• religiosity may influence young people’s attitudes and values, and keep them away from things that they should not do before they are adults, like sex and marriage
• religion give positive impact on teen marriage and shows the pregnancy rate drop since 1991
• Religion is a factor for young people to get married, but it is less impact than others factor such as cultural, family, and education
• religion gives more and more positive impact to reduce teen marriage.

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• various legalities involved in marriages of  different religion and community
• each citizen of India  is entitled to have his own personal laws in the matter of marriage and  divorce
• India being a cosmopolitan country  accepts personal laws of its citizen
• all marriages should be  registered to make it legal
• Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Marriage Act, and Christian Marriage Act and  for the Parsee there is Parsee Marriage and Divorce Act
• Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

  • divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 can be obtained on the various grounds

  • provides for the conditions of a Hindu marriage where under the bridegroom should be the age of 21 years and bride of 18 years, they both should be Hindus and should not be within the degree of prohibited relationship
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• Muslims

  • states that Nikah or marriage is a contract and may be permanent or temporary and permits a man four wives if he treats all of them equally
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• Parsee Marriage & Divorce  Act, 1939

  • governs the provisions of their marriage and law and for Indian Christian there is a Indian Christian Marriage Act 1889
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• Special Marriage Act, 1954

  • do not need to take any further legal steps because in this case registration is itself the marriage ceremony

  • hose who get married under a civil marriage or no formal marriage ceremony
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• So whatever be your religion it is important to legalize your  marriage ceremony
• India being a tolerant and unbiased country there is  place for every community and religion as personal laws of every  religion states the rules and regulations to be followed while marriage

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• that nearly half of adult Indian women aged 20 to 24 married before the legal age of 18.
• These child marriages were significantly associated with poor fertility outcomes, such as unwanted and terminated pregnancies, repeat childbirths in less than 24 months, and increased sterilisation rates.
• 44.5 percent of women aged 22 to 24 were married before age 18. More than one in five - 22.6 percent - were married before age 16, while 2.6 percent were married before age 13

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• Abortion in India is illegal.
• Majority of the people believe that abortion is illegal in  India, but in special circumstances when the woman doesn’t really have a choice  abortion is allowed.
• to when abortion is legal or not are under  the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and it also provides for special  situations in which a woman has the right to have an abortion for her own peace  of mind, like when she was raped
• Abortions for unmarried women are done on the basis of the  assumption that having a child would constitute grave injury to their mental  health
• need the opinion of doctor(s) to state that it would cause  such grave injury.
• the doctor has to take into consideration the current  financial and other conditions (like age) of the woman
• well established that marital relationships should be  safeguarded from every possible angle
• Inter religious marriages in India are basically governed by the Special  Marriage Act
• The marriage between Christians in India can either be under the Indian Christian Marriage Act, or  the Special Marriage Act

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• Those intercultural marriages are seen to succeed where couples show immense reserves of strength, fortitude and staying power in dealing with the reality of building lives together under complex circumstances which often involve constant jitters like how parents will react and what relatives will think.
• even if family and friends on both sides of the marriage are supportive, there will always be naysayers predicting early demise of the relationship
• Intercultural and interreligious marriages work best when the people involved are honest to themselves and to those around them

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• health risks for the baby
• more likely to suffer health, social, and emotional problems
• premature labor
• more likely to drop out of school
• increased rates of alcohol and substance abuse, lower educational level, and reduced earning potential in teen fathers

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• 18% of U.S teens have experienced sex prior to the age of fifteen
• By age twenty 40%of white women and 64% of black women will have experienced at least one pregnancy
• 3 million out of 12 million teens are affected by sexually
• 50% of adolescents who have a baby become pregnant again within two years of the first birth
• • Every 26 seconds another adolescent becomes pregnant 
  • Every 56 seconds another adolescent gives birth 

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• Becoming a parent involves emotion, compassion, dedication, strength, knowledge, protectiveness, and being able to financially support the child.

  • This is a perspective of at 14 year old.
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