Erica Martelly's List: Causes of Child Marriage

• • birth registration can help reduce the amount of child marriages that occur in india.

• This leaves child brides more vulnerable to poverty, a consequence of child  marriage as well as a cause.

  • A cause of child marriage is poverty
• violation of children's rights,

  • Contact an NGO that is for Child rights
• Where poverty is acute, a young girl may be regarded as an economic burden and her marriage to a much older - sometimes even elderly - man is believed to benefit the child and her family both financially and socially.
• sometimes girls can be used as currency or to settle debts.
• Dominant notions of morality and honour are important factors encouraging the  practice of child marriage

  • Another reason for child marriage
• 'family honour'
• It is considered that shame would be cast on a family if a girl was not a virgin  when she marries. Therefore, in order to ensure that a girl's virtue remains in  tact, girls may be married earlier, in order to ensure their virginity
• often seen by parents of young girls as a means of securing both their own and their daughter's future

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