Child marriage is a widespread problem globally and remains common in Bangladesh. Some key facts: - Over 60 million girls worldwide married before 18; 1 in 7 girls marry before 15. - Bangladesh has the 4th highest rate globally, with over half of girls married by 18. - Poverty, lack of education, social norms, and easy falsification of age documents contribute to the problem. - Consequences for girls include health risks, denial of education, domestic violence, and abuse. - Efforts are needed to increase education, empower girls, engage communities, and strengthen legal protections to reduce child marriage in Bangladesh.

1. “A comparative Study on Child Marriage in
Bangladesh: Issues & Facts’’

2. Child Marriage
Every Year 15 million children is married
1 in 3 girls In the developing world are said to be married before 18.
Over 700 million women alive today were married as children.
156 million men alive today were married before they turned 18
If there is no reduction in child marriage, the global number of women
married as children will reach 1.2 billion by 2050.
41000 Girls are married per day
28 Girls In every minutes
1 Girl in every 2 seconds

3. Childmarriage canbe defined as “any marriage carried
out belowthe ageof 18years,before the girl isnot
physicallyandpsychologicallyready to shoulder the
responsibilities of marriage andchildbearing”
ChildMarriage isaformof violence againstchildren as
it deniestheright of children to health, nutrition,
education, freedom from violence, abuseand
exploitation.
The concept of Child Marriage

4. Child Marriage: A Global Concern
 Child marriage is widespread practice globally, including in the wealthiest and most developed
nations
 . It is most common, however, in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and parts of Central America

5. Child Marriage: A Global Concern
• More than 60 million girls worldwide aged
20-24 married before their 18th birthday. In
the developing world, 1 in 7 girls will marry
before the age of 15, and
sometimes brides are as young as 7 or 8
• 3,500 girls marry before reaching the age of
15
• 21,000 girls marry before the age of 18

6. Child marriage in Bangladesh
• The child marriage rate in Bangladesh is veryhigh
• Highest rate of child marriage in South Asia (66%) and fourth position
in world.
• Occurs 80% in poor families and 53% in solvent families.
• The Child Marriage law of enforcement in Bangladesh isvery
negligible.

7. Legal provision for child marriage
• In Bangladesh the legal agefor marriage is21 for boys and 18 for
girls.
• This was established with the nationalChild Marriage RestraintAct
in 1929.
• Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2017Child Marriage Restraint Act,
2017
• Punishment for child marriage : six months to two years Jail or
50000 Taka Fine or both
• 4.The proposed law is at odds with Bangladesh's bold and
ambitious comments to end child marriage

8. Data analysis
• Child marriage is one of the worst violations of a child rights that we can imagine.
It specially affects girls, robbing them of their childhood. Bangladesh has the
fourth highest rate of child marriage in the world
• This paper will refer to some empirical data that has been collected from various
sources. It must be noted that most of these data are latest, collected directly and
are from reliable sources .
• This evaluation is mostly Based on Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey
collected from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Data provided by Bangladesh
Mahila Parishad(BPM)

9. Child Brides in Asia and Africa

10. Data analysis
• One-third of women in Bangladesh aged 20-49 were married before
they reached the age of 15
• The practice of arranging child marriage remains common place,
especially among poor in rural areas and urban slums.
• Meherpur has the highest percentage (57.3 percent) of currently
married female aged 15-19
• Sylhet has the lowest percentages (11.0 percent) of currently married
female aged 15-19 years

11. Currently Married Girls aged 15-19

12. Data analysis
• North-East part of Bangladesh has got highest percentage of currently married
adolescent girls aged 15-19 & North- East part of Bangladesh has got lesser
currently married adolescent girls aged 15-19 years.
• The incidence of child marriage is 53 percent in urban areas and 70 percent in
rural areas
70%
13.7
36.3
53%
14.6
33.7
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Child marriage Age under 14 Age 15-17
Child Marriage
Rural urban

13. Data analysis
• Child marriage is less in slum (49.6 percent) areas than non-slum
(56.4 percent) areas.
• Child marriage is more common among Bengali women (50 percent)
than other ethnic women (35.8 percent).
• Muslim population (51.4 percent) than non-Muslim population (32
percent),
• women who have had completed secondary and higher education
(27.5 percent) than women with no education (52.4 percent)

14. Reported incidents in the country (2010-2016)
Reported incidents of child marriage in Bangladesh of previous 7 year is presented
here. Data is collected from Bangladesh Mahila Parishod (BPM)
This implies that the numberincidents of child marriage was higher in 2010,166
incidents was reported in that year. But the incidents decreased in later years to
67incident in 2013. But the incident of child marriage was 177 in 2016 which is
almost double than 2015 when 94 incidents took place
Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total
Number of
child
marriage
166 75 88 67 93 94 177 594

15. Reported child marriage incidents in 2017
• Monthly Data of the 2017 shows a much bigger picture of present condition of
child marriage in Bangladesh. Total 197 cases of child marriage is reported this
year and 247 attempts of child marriage is recorded.
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total
Child
marriage
12 5 10 10 08 13 58 20 48 06 4 3 197
Attempt to
Child
Marriage
10 15 11 25 24 01 01 - - 59 60 41 247

16. Findings of Survey
• Conventional norms, concern for security and social
pressure.
• Financial insecurity and child marriage.
• Less education, higher rates of child marriage
• Higher engagement of paid work, lower rates of child
marriage. (Financially independent and child marriage)
• Love marriage contribute to increase child marriage

17. Causes of child Marriage
Child
Marriage
Gender
Inequality
poverty
Social
Insecurity
Easy
access of
false age
certificate
Lack of
education
Family
Ties and
Relations
hips

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20. Impact and Consequences of Child Marriage
Psychosocial
Harm
Denial of
Education
Domestic
Violence and
Abuse
Poverty,
Divorce, and
Abandonment
Health and
Reproduction

23. Expert opinion
Masuma Rehana Begum (Joint Secretary, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad)
• It shouldn’t be accepted to get married under 18, because girls under 18 usually
face a lots of problem when they get marriage.
• Usually parents don’t want their daughter to be married off at the age of 11 or 12
but they are forced to do it for various reasons we all have a responsibility to help
those parents to change their mindset and provide support to come out from
such tendency
Kanij Fatema Mukti (District Women affairs Officer, Sirajgonj)
• Present Condition is better compare to last decades.
• Number of child marriage is decreasing due to the increasing of women
education facilities.

24. Ways to Prevent Child Marriage
• Educate Girls
• Empower Girls
• Educate Parents
• Mobilize religious leaders and community elders
• Support for young girls from being dropout
• Help Legislation Against Child Marriage
• Provide Relevant Economic Support
• Support Artists, Photographers, and Journalists who Raise Awareness
about Child Marriage

25. Recommendation for stopping child Marriage
• Phase no.1 :Creating public awareness
• Phase no.2:Victim based awareness
• Phase no.3:Using proper resource materials
• Phase no.4:Analyzing and monitoring the work
• Phase no.5:Publishing report and focusing the further work

26. Phase 1: Creating public awareness
Awareness through social media
Social
media
Reality
show
Facebook
Btv based
progamme
Youtube

27. Awareness based on reality show and BTV program
• Reality shows can be made to create awareness
• Hosting by popular actor,
• aired on public holiday,
• interview with victim and related
organization,
• taking public opinion by
telephone and email

29. Field
work
Data
Collection
Campaign
Little group
to aware
mass
people
Counselling
Awareness based on field work
• Data collection:
• Little group to aware mass people:
• Campaign

30. Phase 2: Victim Based awareness:
• Hotline:
• School Program
• Counselling
• Distribution of necessary Item

31. • Phase 3: Using proper resource materials
Using proper resource materials is a must. We have to use proper materials to get
best benefit. We have to keep in mind about time, knowledge, beneficiary groups,
mental construction in a society etc.
• Phase 4: Analyzing and monitoring the work
We have to analyze and monitor the program for one year. After observing our
initiative, we can go through our next step. In this stage, we can get ideas about the
program where we should focus more, how it works on mass people, its impact,
efficiency, consistency etc.
• Phase 5: Publishing report and focusing the further work
After analyzing and monitoring all of the steps, we have to publish a report and
compare the rate with other year. Further initiative will be taken after analyzing the
report

32. Challenges that will be faced during the
implementation process:
• Fund
• Time Management
• Instrument
• Manpower