Child Brides in India

Child Brides in India

1. Prevention

   • Groups
     • Care
     • Breakthrough
     • Forward
     • Mandated to
       • Raise awareness
       • Support girls already in marriages
       • Attempt to provide an education
   • Regional
     • South Asian Initiative to End Violence Against Children
   • Global Campaign
     • Global Propgram to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriages

2. Evolution

   • Past
     • Child brides were 8-14
       • Culturally acceptable historically
   • Present
     • Child brides are 6-10
       • Younger?
         • Attributed to AIDS epidemic
     • 15 million girls each year

3. Causes

   • Sexual Security
     • Wives are virgins
       • Less chance of AIDS
   • Security for wives
     • Regarded as "safer" from crime
   • Monetary Incentive
     • Families promised financial stability
       • "dowry" paid in cattle
       • 75% of country living on less than $2 a day

4. Where?

   • Dehli Slums
   • Ranga Reddy
     • Child Bride Capital

5. How often?

   • 1/9 girls in developing world married before 15
     • 13 child brides every 30 seconds

6. Harms

   • Marital rape of minors
   • Girls often deprived of education
     • Culturally seen as "unneccesary"
       • 60% of uneducated girls are child brides
       • Girls that finish secondary school are 6 times less likely to become child brides
     • Leads to unemployability
   • Underaged pregnancy
     • Leading cause of death of female minors aged 15-19