Why Girls Run Away to Marry Adolescent Realities and Socio-Legal Responses in India

Mehra, Madhu; Nandy, Amrita

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“…However, these general constraints are worsened in case of POCSO prosecutions, because very often POCSO cases are initiated against those marginalised on caste, religion or other marginality by aggrieved parents opposed to their daughters' interfaith or inter-caste or intra-clan (sagotra) marriages [17]. This deprives the young couple of support from parents, either of one side or [5] both.…”

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Law Commission of India report on the age of consent: Denying justice and autonomy to adolescents

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Bandewar

2024

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Section: Increased Incarceration Of the Most Underprivileged And Mino...mentioning

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Law Commission of India report on the age of consent: Denying justice and autonomy to adolescents

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2024

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“…A recent study of how the child marriage law has been used on the ground showed that it was more often invoked by parents of girls who have eloped to get married to their lovers against parental wishes, to prevent a marriage from taking place; POCSO and rape laws were also invoked in many of these cases. 26 , 27 Many of these marriages are also outside the strict compatibility of caste and religious restrictions.…”

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“…Even when bail is secured, the boy fights the case for several months or sometimes years thereafter. A recent study of cases of young girls’ elopement by Partners in Law and Development 26 observed that girls are forced to elope with their boyfriends due to parental opposition to consensual relationships. They eventually end up marrying the boyfriends though there is a lot of uncertainty in the relationship and ill-preparedness to take on the responsibilities of marriage.…”

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Age of consent: challenges and contradictions of sexual violence laws in India

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Lingam

2021

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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India enacted a new child sexual abuse law in 2012 and made important changes to the rape law in 2013 to expand the definition of rape and sexual assault, introduce several reforms and improve gender sensitivity in rape trials. However, the child sexual abuse law with its definition of who is a child has increased the age of consent for sex from 16 years to 18 years, echoed by similar changes in the rape law. This paper revisits the debates on the age of consent in India in the late nineteenth century. It reviews them in the light of the new legislative changes, adjudication of cases of sexual assault, and examines the implications of the new laws on adolescents and their sexuality. We contend that the changes in the law have resulted in several challenges: for adolescents exploring their sexuality on the one hand, and for courts to adjudicate on love, romance, and elopement, on the other. Further, in conjunction with raising the age of consent, other changes such as mandatory reporting of sexual activity among adolescents, especially by hospitals, have increased family control on adolescents’ sexuality and strengthened regressive social norms linked to marriages. One of the most troubling developments is the resulting barriers to adolescents’ access to reproductive and sexual health care. This paper explores how laws devised to address harm and extend protection to children play into dominant social norms and are in the service of protectionist and patriarchal control on young people and their sexuality.

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Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination

Siddiqi

2023

The Cunning of Gender Violence

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This chapter historicizes the emergence of child marriage as an object of developmental concern in contemporary Bangladesh, illuminating new power constellations and frames of intervention in the process. The analysis locates the rise of this “unanticipated category” within evolving rationales of corporatized neoliberal development agendas and corresponding shifts in gendered figurations at the turn of the millennium. Highlighting new players within the global constellation through which GBVAW (gender-based violence against women) circulates, the chapter shows how international organizations pull in and rally state agencies, local activists, and NGOs to produce a new common sense around child marriage. To unravel these larger operations of power, the analysis centers women's activisms in Bangladesh; the gendered social worlds that shape young women's desires; and the ways local NGOs and activists negotiate need and skepticism in relation to global agendas

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Why Girls Run Away to Marry Adolescent Realities and Socio-Legal Responses in India

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Law Commission of India report on the age of consent: Denying justice and autonomy to adolescents

Law Commission of India report on the age of consent: Denying justice and autonomy to adolescents

Age of consent: challenges and contradictions of sexual violence laws in India

Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination

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