Associations Between Early Marriage and Young Women's Marital And Reproductive Health Outcomes: Evidence from India  

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Santhya, K.G. ; Ram, Usha ; Acharya, Rajib ; Jejeebhoy, Shireen J. ; Ram, Faujdar ; Singh, Abhishek

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Family Planning Perspectives vol. 36 no. 03 (Sep. 2010), page 132-139.
Topik: Early Marriage; Young Women's Marital; Reproductive Health; Outcomes: India
Fulltext: International Perspectives on Sexual and ReproductiveHealth,2010,36(3),132-139 (win).pdf (143.12KB)

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The policy and program discourse related to early marriage (i.e., marriage before age 18) has increased significantly in India during the past decade. For example, several national policies—including the National Population Policy 2000,1 the National Youth Policy 2003, the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women3 and, most recently, the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006—have advocated special programmatic attention to helping young women delay marriage and to enforcing existing laws against child marriage. In addition, several initiatives have been launched to prevent early marriage. Despite these efforts, substantial proportions of young women continue to marry during adolescence. As recently as 2005–2006, almost half (47%) of a nationally representative sample of women aged 20–24 reported having married before age 18.6 The proportion is between 50% and 70% in several states.

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