About early marriage

About early marri festerIntroductionIn many unalike countries and parts of the world, young womens marri get along with before the eld of 18 is a reality to be lived. Some studies were made using 40 Demographic and wellness Surveys show that a vast percent come on of women in civilized and developed countries continue to marry at an early age. The statistics showed 20-25% of women get married at the age of 18, and 40-70% of women marry at the age of twenty. Early marriage is widely spread in Africa and South Asia, and is least common in North Africa, Middle East, and south-east Asia (International Family Planning Perspectives, 22148-157 175, 1996).Overview about early marriageSome previous presentations showed that the phenomenon of early marriage was related to the high poverty and social constraints due to conflicts, policy-making and economical obstacles, instability, and shortage of services in education, housing, and professional phylogenesis. Consequently, it was common that parents would encourage their daughters to get married at an early age in hopes that this marriage lead enhance both their financial and social status. However, early marriage for young daughters is considered as a form of violation of human rights, since it compromises the physical, mental, psychological, educational and emotional development of girls. This tradition could be a harmful practice and consequently, its harmful effects are many. For instance, girls will be denied the right to freely express their views, the right to be defended against detrimental and devastating traditional practices. Moreover, early marriage requires the performance of heavy house withhold and marital responsibilities including the raising of children. The question here rears itself, how will child mothers raise their children while they are still children themselves. For this reason, the following research studies the awareness students concur about the causes and effects of early marriage , and questions their opinion on whether they support or not early marriage.Gathering DataIn order to determine the way of gathering and receiving the information, we buzz off first structured and designed a questionnaire, and then asked 70 randomly selected female students to fill in the questionnaire form.Questionnaire DesignThe questionnaire included 8 questions that started with general questions about the age and the marital status of the respondents then we have tackled more(prenominal) topic- related questions regarding the suit adequate to(p) age for marriage and why in the respondents opinion it is regarded as a suitable age for marriage, the causes and effects of early marriage, whether divorce is considered as the most common effect of early marriage, and finally whether the respondents agree or disagree on early marriage. Questionnaire Results Over a period of 2 days, we have distributed 100 questionnaires among the students and the returned response rate was 70 %. Giv en that this questionnaire was conducted in a very short period of time however, we have received a considerable and impressive response rate from the students, this reflects that the questionnaire has stimulated an extraordinary interest in the topic. Location Questionnaires DistributedQuestionnaires ReturnedPercentage of Return RateAbu Dhabi University1007070 %We have composed our database on the basis of tallying the numbered questions, where the questions that offered a multiple election of responses were allocated with different alphabetical letters.Statistical Data and Graph AnalysisAge of the RespondentsAs shown in the pie graph below, and based on the results we have ga thered from our questionnaire, the highest proportion which is 65 % of the respondents ages ranged between 20 and 25 age old where 22.8% of the respondents were below 20 old age old. On the other hand, a very small percentage of 8.57 of the participants age ranged between 26 and 30 years old, where as the lowest rate of 2.86 % were for the respondents whose age is in a higher place 30 years old. Marital StatusThe following diagram shows the marital status of the students who participated in the survey. Statistics showed that the majority or 80 % of the respondents are wiz whereas only 20 % are married. Among the 20 % of the married respondents, 28.5% were married below the age of 18, 7.2 % were married at the age of 20, 28.5% were in union above the age of 22 yet, at the descriptive point, 35.7 % was the proportion of women who didnt mention at what age they got married.What is the suitable age for marriage?Marriageable age (or marriage age) as delineate by Wikipedia is, the age at which a person is allowed to marry, either as of right or subject to parental or other forms of consent. However, in our questionnaire, we have asked the students their opinion about the suitable age for marriage. The statistics that we have gathered on this query was bounded to two choices out of fo ur. Though, both choices form a percentage that might be considered to be significant however, there are differences. The percentage claiming that the suitable age for marriage ranges between 20 and 25 years old was noticeably high, as it reached 74.29 %. On the other hand, 25.71 % of the respondents consider that the age ranging between 26 and 30 is the ideal age for marriage. As we have antecedently mentioned that the aim and objective of our research is to study the level of awareness women have about the impact early marriage has on women and how it can affect or threat the fulfillment of young womens rights. Therefore, through our questionnaire, we developed further questions that would allow us to tackle more deep issues about the subject and that would enable us to highlight the respondents opinion regarding specific details. For instance, as a continuation for the previous question, we asked the students why they think that the age they have selected to be a suitable age fo r marriage is in their opinion suitable. Likewise, we have listed a list of possible reasons for them to choose. The 74.29 % who supports marriage between 20 and 25 years old justified their choice as followsThe reading can be presented in the following percentages 33.64 % responded able-bodied and ready for household responsibilities 32.71% responded entrust have mental maturity 25.35 % responded Able and physically ready to have children 9.86 % responded Will provide her an economic and financial stability 0 % Dont Know 0 % OtherAnalysis We can tell that there is a strong proximity between the first two choices where the majority believes that girls between 20 and 25 years old will be able and ready to bear the domestic responsibilities and will have the maturity level that would enable her to face constrained decisions in life. A close percentage of responses support the fact that at this same age, girls would reach a physical maturity that would enable her to have children. C onversely, figures supporting the choice that marriage can provide the girl a stable financial status were minor in comparison to the other choices. As for the 25.7 % of those who support marriage between 26 and 230 years, had different exculpation which are read as follows 34.29% responded Able and ready for household responsibilities 22.86% responded Will have mental maturity 28.57 % responded Able and physically ready to have children 11.43 % responded Will provide her an economic and financial stability 0 % Dont Know 2.86 % Other 34.29% responded Able and ready for household responsibilities 22.86% responded Will have mental maturity 28.57 % responded Able and physically ready to have children 11.43 % responded Will provide her an economic and financial stability 0 % Dont Know 2.86 % Other The responses for this group of respondents were not so remote from that of the first group. We can spot out from the closeness in percentage rates that there is a somehow similarity and co nsistency in responses. The above readings would indicate that approximately there are three factors that mostly contribute in determining the suitable age for marriage. These factors are The ability and readiness to hold domestic duties, mental maturity, and finally the physical readiness to have children.