Exploring the Meaning of Divorce from the View Point of Divorcees of Sabzevar City

Ghodrati, Shafieh; Bagheri, Shahla; Mostafavi, Maryam; Askari, Mahdi

doi:10.18869/acadpub.jspi.7.2.97

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“…The classic interaction of religion and culture [91] and the absence of a legal age for marriage [92] can increase the rate of child marriage. Instances of sociocultural norms [68] are the priority of marrying a family's eldest son in Bangladesh [50], virginity of girls in Ghana [52] and Ethiopia [68], the desire for normative structures such as kinship and extended family [54], family desire to maintain a good name [93,94], stigmatizing single girls [95] and limited right of decisionmaking [96]. As a result of this rigid marriage tradition, it forces young women to marry at a young age.…”

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Prevalence and factors associated with child marriage, a systematic review

Pourtaheri,

Sany,

Aghaee

et al. 2023

BMC Women's Health

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Background Girl child marriage is increasingly recognized as a critical barrier to global public health and gender discrimination. There are still more gaps in the global rate of child marriage and the underlying factors. Thus, the present systematic review aimed to explore the prevalence of child marriage and the underlying factors. Methods A comprehensive search was conducted for all English-language studies that measured the prevalence of child marriage and its correlates from 2000 to March 2022, indexed in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Poplin, and Google Scholar databases. Child marriage is defined as marriage under the age of 18. In the present study, Joanna Briggs' quality assessment checklist was used for data collection. Two independent reviewers reviewed all the articles. Results In total, 34 eligible prevalence articles and 14 trend articles were included in the study with data from 127,945 participants. The prevalence of child marriage ranged between 1.8% to 90.85%. In most studies, the trend of child marriage was decreasing. The most important individual factors include the respondent's education and occupation, interpersonal factors such as the education and occupation of parents and husband, family size and type. Community factors include socioeconomic status, region, residence, ethnicity, and religion at the social level. Conclusion Despite a central focus of research and policies on interventions that decrease child marriage, this phenomenon is still prevalent in many places. Therefore, further specific interventions are required to improve education, reduce poverty and inequality. This may help achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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