India And Child Marriage

Today while going through various news sites ,i read a report on one of news site which had title -’India is hub for child marriage’ . I was shocked to read that.

Some of shocking facts stated by UNICEF were

• 45% of women married before they turned 18.
• 78,000 women die during childbirth every year.
• One million infants die every year, 40% of them in the first week after birth.
• 40% of total child marriages in world occur in India.

India shinning ,India growing ,India goes to moon ,India is second fastest moving economy, India’s high skill work force are globally respected. We all have listen to this ,experienced this but at same time these are some serious issue which we need to deal with.

Recently a serial is on air with theme of child marriage. It has become very popular. It deals with this issue . How a girl child get married at 11 and what all she goes through. In the end of every episode they give message related to this issue too. Its good initiative.

But we require lot of such initiatives by leaders , by responsible citizens like you and me to deal with this issue.

We do have law against child marriage but how successfully it is implemented can be understood by this UNICEF report.

Issues related to custom ,tradition cant only be stopped by making law. To stop such things one needs social change.

Society has to work to remove problem in society.

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