Child marriage

    Do you have a younger sibling ,or a cousin? Imagine that they have to drop out of school ,even if they love school. Then to make matters worse they have to marry someone that they do not know.  You may think this does not happen. Well it actually does happen across the planet. Forty -one countries have a population of least thirty percent of child marriages, that's  a lot of countries.

Figure 1: two child brides with husbands

    Child marriage is when at least of the people in a marriage is below eighteen years, or the age one someone is considered an adult. An union of two people is known as marriage. Although Figure 1 shows two child brides, males can also be married before they turn an adult.A child bride is a bride that is not an adult. Child marriage happens for many reasons which include protection of daughter, gender standards, dowry, and traditions.
    A dowry is when a family pays money to the other family so that they can marry their son or daughter to the other family. A family may be so poor that they marry their daughter for a dowry than keep sending her to school. This money can be used to help the family. In some societies unmarried women have a higher risk of attack from sexual predators than married women, some parents may marry off their daughter early to protect them.
  In other places of the world males are seen as providers for a family. In other words they are the money makers for the family. While a female is seen as the caretaker of family which is they take care of children , and chores in the house. Once a female is a certain age then she is seen to be a caretaker of a family even if she is not quite an adult yet.
Even though you may not want child marriage to occur, it is still happening in this world. As with anything in this world it's a good idea to have more information for child marriage, so that you can be able an unfair decision about any topic. Being a curious human being , you might want to learn more so that you can make fair decisions in the future. This is a link for the organization that helps children such as the ones in child marriage. https://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58008.html Another link is https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/about-child-marriage/  which also gives more information of child marriage.

Reference

Figure 1: Child Brides. Stith, J. Child Brides to patriarchy: Unveiling the Appropriation of the Miss Girl. Journal Of Feminist Studies in Religion. Spring 2015.