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1. CHILD
MARRIAGE
BY
AMAN
G.C.

2. What is Child Marriage?
Child Marriage is
defined as a marriage
of a girl or boy
before the age of 18
and refers to both
formal marriages and
informal unions in
which children under
the age of 18 live with
a partner as if

3. Origin of Child Marriage
A report by The New York Times states that
according to sociologists Gujjar’s and similar
groups trace the origin of child marriages in
India to the Muslim invasions that began more
than 1,000 years ago.
Some others suggest child marriages were
common everywhere in the world before the 19th
century.
In India,
there was a famous sociologist Raja Ram
Mohan Roy who fought against Child Marriage.

4. Some Facts
 According to the UN, 37,000 girls under the age
of 18 are married each day.
 1 in 3 girls in the developing countries are
married before 18; 1 in 9 are married before the
age of 15.
 If present trends continue, more than 140
millions girls will be married before the age of
18 in the next decade.
 According to a UN report, India has second-
highest number of child marriages.

5. India in Child Marriage

6. Causes of Child Marriage
1. Poverty
2. Gender Inequality
3. Tradition and Culture
4. Lack of Awareness
5. Lack of Independence
6. Family Pressures

7. Effects
 Isolated young girls, making them dependent
and helpless.
 Deprives them of fundamental rights to
education and safety.
 Affects reproductive health.
 Higher risk of poor health-complications of child-
birth, HIV etc.
 Higher risk of facing domestic violence, sexual
abuse, poverty.
 Next generation also gets stuck in same cycle.

8. Challenges to stop child
Marriage
 Low public awareness of the illegal nature of
child marriage and of the consequence of child
marriage.
Lack of trust in authorities among rural and
ethnic minorities communities.

9. Child marriage in India

10. Now, a question arise:-
What should we
do to stop child
marriage?

11. Awareness

12. How to increase awareness
 The situation has become so pathetic that there
is an immediate need to make people aware
regarding child marriage.
 Children should be made aware of their human
rights and must be taught to refuse these types of
social evil.
 Media can play a important role in awareness
like ‘Balika Vadhu’ serial.
 Social media can also play a key role.

13. PROHIBITION OF
CHILD MARRIAGE ACT,2006
According to the Act, a
child is defined as a person
below the age of 18 years
for females and 21 years
for males. In this act a
person can be imprisoned
for two years.

14. Schemes for women and
child girl
 Beti bachao Beti padhao (2015)
 Sukanya samriddhi Scheme (2015)
 Lado campaign (2013)
 Mukhyamantri Shubh-
Lakshmi Scheme(2013)
 Balika samriddhi yozna

15. Famous female personalities

16. Conclusion:-
 Child marriage ends childhood.
 It negatively influences children’s health and
protection.
 And it also spoils children’s dreams.
So,
Raise your voice against “Child
Marriage”.

17. Thank-You!