Social context of first birth timing in a rapidly changing rural setting

Ghimire, Dirgha J.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.07.001

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“…Women marrying young helps ensure that they do not have time to endanger their reputations though interactions with men. Furthermore, in Nepal, as well as many non‐Western contexts, childbearing is expected to take place only within marriage and is often expected to start relatively quickly after marriage (Ghimire, ; Gipson & Hindin, ). Undesirable ages for women's marriage may be particularly disliked because they are ages at which women cannot have children or do so only at risk to themselves and their children.…”

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Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

Allendorf

Thornton

Mitchell

et al. 2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Around the world, women marry earlier than men, but it is not well understood why this gender gap exists. Using panel data collected in Nepal, the authors investigate whether attitudes about marital timing held by unmarried youth and their parents account for women marrying earlier than men. They also examine whether the influence of timing attitudes differs by gender. On average, unmarried youth and their parents viewed 20 to 25 as acceptable ages for women to marry, while ages 23 to 30 were appropriate for men. In turn, women entering the acceptable marriage age range earlier than men accounted for a third of the gender gap in marital timing. The influence of youth and parents’ timing attitudes did differ by gender, but only at the extreme. When they were much too young for marriage, both genders were less likely to marry, but this dampening effect was substantially larger for women.

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Section: Conceptualizationmentioning

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Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

Allendorf

Thornton

Mitchell

et al. 2017

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Previous studies from Nepal had highlighted the in uence of common behaviors in one's community on predicting future desires and decisions, such as timing of the rst birth (35). For example, we hoped that when participants in our study-most of whom personally believed it was acceptable to delay the rst birth-heard others in their own communities also believe it is okay to wait, that this would reinforce the acceptability of shifting expectations.…”

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Impact of Sumadhur intervention on fertility and family planning decision-making norms: A mixed methods study

Mitchell

Puri²,

Dahal³

et al. 2022

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Background Mindful of social norms shaping health among women pressured to prove early fertility in Nepal, a bi-national research team developed and piloted a 4-month intervention engaging household triads (newly married women, their husbands, and mothers-in-law) toward advancing gender equity, personal agency, and reproductive health. This study evaluates the impact on family planning and fertility decision-making. Methods In 2021, Sumadhur was piloted in six villages with 30 household triads (90 participants). Pre/post surveys of all participants were analyzed using paired t-tests and in-depth interviews with a subset of 45 participants were transcribed and analyzed thematically. Results Sumadhur significantly impacted (p < .05) norms related to pregnancy spacing and timing, and sex preference of children, as well as knowledge about family planning benefits, pregnancy prevention methods, and abortion legality. Family planning intent also increased among newly married women. Qualitative findings revealed improved family dynamics and gender equity, and shed light on remaining challenges. Conclusions Entrenched social norms surrounding fertility and family planning contrasted with participants’ personal beliefs, highlighting needed community-level shifts to improve reproductive health in Nepal. Engagement of influential community- and family-members is key to improving norms and reproductive health. Additionally, promising interventions such as Sumadhur should be scaled up and reassessed.

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“…The contractual marriage agreement usually implies that the couple has legal obligations to each other throughout their lives until they decide to formally divorce. The Hindu society and culture considers marriage to be more than just a simple bond between two individuals; marriage is a bond between several families and a continuity of the family line of descent (Ghimire, 2003;Alavi et al 2013). Marriage has in most cases been taken as an indispensable life event for sexual activity, procreation and family formation.…”

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Transformations of Parental Socio-economic Characteristics into the Married Couple in Rural Nepal

Aryal

2024

Asian J. Pop. Sci.

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This study is about the attributes of different households which together come into the married couples to unite into their wedlock. The purpose of the study was to trace out the carry-over of the wife and husband side parental attributes into the household socio-economic situation of married couples. A total of seventy-five married couples and their either side parents’ (wife side and husband side) socio-economic and demographic information were taken using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were collected in Thakre Rural Municipality of Dhading district of Nepal from February to April of 2022 from the conveniently selected respondents using face-to-face interviews. The data were analyzed in terms of frequency, mean and other descriptive statistics. The study revealed that there is a growing trend of inter-caste marriage and love marriage in the younger generations compared to their parents, however, inter-religious marriages are still very few in Nepalese rural society. Findings of the study also revealed that the male counterparts were older in age structures on all three sides while the wife side parents were better off in terms of level of wealth and income. The study further unveiled that the husbands have been able to marry with the wives whose parents have higher economic status than their parents. This finding is useful in understanding the current pattern of marriage as well as the socio-economic transfer brought together by the married couple as a carryover from their respective parental houses.

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Social context of first birth timing in a rapidly changing rural setting

Cited by 6 publications

References 84 publications

Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

Impact of Sumadhur intervention on fertility and family planning decision-making norms: A mixed methods study

Transformations of Parental Socio-economic Characteristics into the Married Couple in Rural Nepal

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