Erica Martelly's List: Health Risks

• higher risks of unwanted pregnancies and female sterilization.
• used no contraception before they had their first child,
• violation of human rights.
• grave health consequences for both the girl and her children
• more likely to experience complications

• Of these, 22.6 percent were married before they were 16, 44.5 percent were  married when they were between 16 and 17, and 2.6 percent were married before  they turned 13.

• India introduced laws against child marriage in 1929 and set the legal age  for marriage at 12 years. The legal age for marriage was increased to 18 years  in 1978.
• and rural, poor, less educated girls and those from central or eastern regions  of the country were most vulnerable to the practice, the researchers wrote.
• large numbers of pubescent girls aged 14 to 15 years,
• economic development gains have failed to help rural and poor populations,
• inadequate fertility control,

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• Notes
  - 21.3% of slum dwellers perform child marriage
  - migrant communities do child marriages more often
  - children are married off to get rid of the burden of taking care of a child
  - there is a "sense of security" attached with marriage
  - child marriages occur in patriarchial societies of india. - Erica Martelly on 2009-05-04

• Notes
  - 22.6% of girls were wed before 16
  -2.6% wed before 13
  - child brides were 37% more likely NOT to use contraception
  - child brides are 7 times more likely to have THREE OR MORE births
  - 3 times more likely to have another child in 24 months
  - child brides are at a greater risk to fistula and death in childbirth
  -More health problems for the bride and her children
  - Child marriage stunts education
  - Child marriage is reducing slightly. Has reduced only a little since 1999
  - Erica Martelly on 2009-05-04