Child early marriages create Pregnancy Problems

Early marriage has become one of the leading issues all over the world. It's beyond my mind and unpredictable to guess the pains and unbearable conditions of those children who are being forcefully married, even they aren't able enough to know what actually marriage is with the age of 5 to 15.

 However, early marriage is not only the impact on depriving the desirable basic needs and wants, rather it impacts with millions of unbearable problems. Child brides are more likely to experience early pregnancies and go on to have more children than girls who marry later. 

            This surely increases their risks of pregnancy and child-birth-related complications which can have long-term health impacts or even cause death.  It is also reported that pregnancy may create physical and mental conditions that affect the health of the mother or the baby. These problems can be caused by or can be made worse by being pregnant. Then many problems are mild and do not progress; however, when they forcefully do, it can harm or damage the baby or Mother.

    In the age of childhood and schooling, they go through physical, sexual, and psychological issues. Further, it's shameful to say that in today's modern era 12 million girls tie the knot before the age of 18 each year, as it was written in a publication. And it's heart-rending to see the children suffering from tortures like violent abuse, social and personal growth, heart attacks, domestic violence, malnutrition in offspring, pregnancy termination, Or psychiatric disorders, like, major depressive disorder, phobias, nicotine dependence, and much more. 

            Moreover, in global the women, who married before 18 years, are three times more likely to be beaten by their spouses than the women, who married at 21 or older and also 2 million-plus adolescents living with HIV.  Ear marriage is a worldwide massive issue but still, there isn't any reduction of rates of early marriages, and some countries are having high rates of early marriages. As Niger is top with 76 percentage, Central African Republic is with 68 percentage 

Chad is with 67 percent, Bangladesh is with 59 percent, etc. and there are maximum countries with such high rates.

 And our Pakistan is not less than others, which is more than 20 percent of percent Pakistani are victims of early marriages. It wonders to believe that early marriages are caused due to gender inequality, social norms, traditional and customary practices, peer pressure, poverty, and poor parenting.

            Thus, the government of the countries should ban early marriages to save the children from all these tortures and disorders and it will bring development to the world because as much greater your generation is generated the greater will be the countries tomorrow. Because today's generation is tomorrow's generator.

 

By:  Aasha Baloch

The writer is a student at the University of Turbat and a student of Cambridge Academy Shahi Tump.

Turbat Kech Balochistan