The Timing of Marriage and Childbearing Among Rural Families in Bangladesh : Choosing Between Competing Risks  

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Schuler, Sidney Ruth ; Bates, Lisa M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 11 (Jun. 2006), page 2826-2837.
Topik: MARRIAGE; bangladesh; marriage; childbearing; adolescent; rural poor

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Early marriage and chilberaring among girls is often associated with a wide range of negative social and health consequences for young mothers and their infants, and contributes to rapid population growth. This paper presents findings from qualitative research in three vilages of rural banglades, where a range of itnerventions have been promoted to encourage later marrriage and childbearing. Data from in depth interviews and group discussions are used to describe socio cultural supports for early marriage and chilbearing, to examine evidence that change towards later marriage and childbearing is beginning and to analyze the social dynamics behind these change processes. the findings suggest that norms supporting early marriage and childbearing are beginning to erode, and that changing gender ideals and aspiration for women are a key factor in this erosion. Interviews among the poorest families, however, show that this group tends to experience this changing social environment in terms of heightened risks. Marital strtategies among the poorest are above all strategies for economic survival, and poor families tend to see the costs of education and delayed marriage for daughters as high and the outcomes as uncertain. At the same time, they have also become aware that early marriage and childbearing entails costs and risks. The authors conclude that further targeting of interventions to the poorest families may help to influence the economic strategies that so often result in early marriage.

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