Is the practice of marriage for girls at an early age are more common in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. However, the marriage in the Middle East and North Africa and other parts of Asia as soon as puberty or shortly thereafter in common among some groups. There are also areas in West Africa, East and South Asia where the marriages long before adulthood is not surprising.
It is difficult to identify the number of early marriages, since many of them unregistered and informal. There are exceptions, such as Bangladesh, where A survey conducted in 1996 - 1997 that five percent of those aged 10 to 14 years married.
And provide studies on a small scale and dimensions of the image information Mtnaqlp, referring to the marriage at the age of very small and widespread:
The survey, which found in 1998 in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, that about 14 percent of girls married at the age between 10 and 14 years.
In Ethiopia and in parts of West Africa, not marriage at the age of seventh or eighth is not uncommon.
In the state of Kebbi in northern Nigeria, the average age of marriage for girls slightly more than 11 years, compared with 17 years at a national level.
Parents choose to marry their daughters early for several reasons. May be considered a poor young girl's family economic burden and believes that marriage is a necessary strategy for the survival of her family alive. The thinking that the early marriage of their daughter provides protection to the risk of sexual assault, or, more generally, care provided by the values it said. May be seen early marriage also that the strategy to avoid the possibility of teenage pregnancy out of wedlock.
The gender-based discrimination would enhance early marriage. The girls are married off in the small to ensure obedience and submission in the husband's family and to maximize rates of reproduction.
The implications of early marriage serious adverse consequences on children, including:
Denial of education: Once they get married, girls tend to stop going to school.
Health problems: includes premature pregnancy, leading to high rates of maternal and infant mortality. The girls at the age of adolescence (13 - 19 years) are more vulnerable to disease transmitted through sexual contact, including the HIV / AIDS.
Ill-treatment: It is common in child marriages. Moreover, the females who refuse to marry or who choose to partner against the wishes of parents who are often punished or even killed their families at the hands of the so-called "crimes
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