Early/child marriage is defined as any marriage below the age of 18. The document discusses causes of child marriage such as gender inequality, poverty, negative beliefs, failure to enforce laws, and cultural norms. Effects include rejection of education, health problems for girls, and domestic violence. The authors conducted a survey that found poverty, illiteracy, and tradition are main causes, while education reduces child marriage rates. They conclude generating awareness is needed to curb this practice.

1. Save my Childhood and Save me
Submitted by:
Sanam Daswani
Maira Razi
Daniyal Aziz
Sohail Mumtaz

2.  Child marriage, also known as early
marriage, is defined as “Any marriage
approved below the age of 18 years.
 Child marriage is when children are forced
to get married. When anyone marries
before their marriageable age is called
child marriage.
 Early child marriage is basically defined as
an illegal crime .

3.  Gender Inequality: Girls occupy a inferior status
therefore they are forced to marry at a little age.
 Poverty: Most of the low class families consider their
daughters as a burden to them and they can’t feed
them.
 Negative Belief: There is a belief that marriage
safeguards against ‘immoral’ or ‘inappropriate
behavior’
 Failure to implement laws: The government is not
paying attention to the causes of early/child marriages
and it’s not able to implement such laws which may
stop this hazard.
 Culture and norms: It is believed in places (households)
like these that the sole duty of the daughter or female
is to b a House maker so since they don't have to work
to earn marrying them early to them is acceptable.

4.  Rejection of personal development and
education.
 Girl children suffer severe health problems
like pregnancy and childbirth.
 Girl brides are also involved in early
childhood care.
 As girl children are still helpless and
submissive, they can be subject to the
atrocities of domestic violence.
 There are many diseases occurs in young
girls due to early child marriage.

5.  society plays an important role in child
marriage that is in some societies, it is a
legal attempt likewise, in some societies
it is an illegal attempt.
 It depends on the education

6.  Education: Girls with eight or more years of
education are less likely to marry early than
girls with zero to five years of education
 It is the requirement of hour to help break the
cycle of inequality, illiteracy, sickness and
poverty.
 Government should also take strict actions
against child marriage.
 Government should create awareness about
the problems associated with child
marriages.
 Empowering girls by keeping them in school,
boosting their skills and providing them with
safe places to come together

7.  CHILD MARRIAGE is biggest issue going in
our society.
 we wanted to know the causes and
effect of child marriage
 we choose the sample of 50 people
 The questionnaire consists of 18
questions, based on the hypothesis
being tested

8.  Hypothesis 1
 H1 child marriage is caused because of poverty.
 H0 child marriage is not caused because of
poverty.
 Hypothesis 2
 H1 child marriage is caused because of gender
inequality.
 H0 child marriage is not caused because gender
inequality.
 Hypothesis 3
 H1 child marriage is because of negative tradition.
 H0 child marriage is not because of negative
tradition.

9.  Hypothesis 4
 H1 child marriage is caused because of failure to
enforce laws.
 H0 child marriage is not caused because of failure to
enforce laws.
 Hypothesis 5
 H1 child’s health is negatively effected because of
child marriage
 H0 child’s health is not negatively effected by child
marriage.
 Hypothesis 6
 H1 girl child can handle the responsibilities of
household.
 H0 girl child cannot handle the responsibilities of
household.
 Hypothesis 7
 H1 there are many diseases because of child marriage.
 H0 there are no diseases because of child marriage.

10.  We took a survey in which we came to a
conclusion that majority of the males
thinks 16-19 is a perfect age of marriage
while majority of the females thinks 20-23
is the perfect age of marriage.
 majority of the males thinks boy or girl
gets mature for marriage at the age of
15-20 while the females thinks that boy or
girls gets mature at the age of 21-25.
 40% male and female say No when they
were asked that Is it good for girls to
marry early while 60& male and female
say yes.

11.  child marriage is very common in
Pakistan. From our survey we took out a
ratio among male and female so,
majority of the males thinks 25-50% while
females thinks 50-75%.
 25 % male and female are in favor of
child marriage while 75% male and
female against it.

12.  many people are against child
marriage
 child marriage generally happens
in rural areas of the country
 There are many bad effects of
child marriage on child health
 The main causes for child
marriages are poverty, illiteracy
and old customs going for many
years.

13.  After conducting the survey we ended to
the fact though early child marriage is
socially not accepted but still there are
some feudal which still practice early child
marriage
 Through survey we were easily able to
deduce that the on behind the Early Child
Marriage is POVERTY & UNAWARENESS
 Parents of the brides are unaware of the
after effects of the Early Child Marriages
 TO most of them daughters to them is a
CURSE or LIABILITY

14.  It was quite clear that with the increase of
level of education the topic of our survey
was quite oppose and many of the YES
changes into NO during the surveys in
urban areas.
 The Rural survey demonstrated in the favor
whereas the total contradiction was seen
from urban areas
 Thus to sum up we could say the solution to
Early Child Marriage is GENERATING
AWARENESS.

15. Thank
You 