Re: Child marriage
by Sarita Ranjan on Jun 23, 2017 02:24 PM
True, and there must be harsh punishment for parents if they are arranging their wards' marriage even 6 months before attaining 21.
Re: Re: Child marriage
by jo on Aug 01, 2017 11:59 AM
Fellows who take advantage of young girls and later abandon them should be first of all castrated & then sentenced to rigorous imprisonment.
There are a lot of marriages in East & South India where the bride & groom are very close to legal marriage age, around 17 or 20 respectively. This is an entirely different thing from forcefully marrying children aged 5 to 15. For a more accurate depiction, the article should've used age range data. There are many children who are 'promised, betrothed, engaged or booked' usually to their relatives or friends, right from childhood such that they are raised with no alternative options when they become adults. This is true even with highly educated families. This too is a social evil.
There are a lot of marriages in East & South India where the bride & groom are very close to legal marriage age, around 17 or 20 respectively. This is an entirely different thing from forcefully marrying children aged 5 to 15. For a more accurate depiction, the article should've used age range data. There are many children who are 'promised, betrothed, engaged or booked' usually to their relatives or friends, right from childhood such that they are raised with no alternative options when they become adults. This is true even with highly educated families. This too is a social evil.
Child marriages were prevalent before girls attain puberty in good olden days of dictatorial Rajas/Zamindari rule mainly because there was no law& order and might is right and teenaged girls were target of all powerful people in the society including the invading Muslim/other tribes to kidnap and rapes.That's why parents used to be very eager to get the big task of protecting her chastity transferred to husbands side and also there used to be 4 or 5 younger sisters to be got married in succession
Re: child marriages in india
by sreeram on Jun 21, 2017 08:23 AM
Also there was a strong custom till 100 years back to get girl married before puberty as a proof to bridegrooms side that she was virgin and if she got married after puberty boys side were not marrying them on the suspicion that chances of her havingan affair possible and why to take chance when younger ggirls were available(though bridegroom was much older than her and had regular affairs with prostitutes and sometimes 2nd& 3rd marriages too)
Re: Re: child marriages in india
by piri on Jun 21, 2017 09:36 AM
Hyndu....muxlim......hyndu....muxlim.....in this topic too ??
Well, what then is your justification for the state of Rajasthan (where 97.6 % of the population is hyndu as per the census survey) having the highest rate of child marriages today ?
Are they still doing it for fear of muxlim invaders taking away their girls ?
Re: child marriages in india
by pk kh on Jun 21, 2017 12:07 PM
Good insight ShreeRam.And please dont bother about corrosive remarks by a frog from Kerala.its as bad as triple talaq and should be abolished now for better cause, as M/and their tripe cannot do it now..
Re: Re: child marriages in india
by suresh kumar on Jun 23, 2017 05:54 PM
u said about the frog from kerala. Just find from google the status of social security index in Kerala and your own state.
Re: Re: Re: child marriages in india
by PradeepKumar Nair on Jul 20, 2017 11:51 AM
A frog is a frog, what happens if the social security index is high, it is good, but that does not give any right to anybody bringing religion in this topic of child marriage.
