Girl Child Marriage in Nigeria: The worst form of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse (original) (raw)
Final-paper-ofChild-Marriage.docx
'Do not marry or encourage the marriage of children before being mature as they are not physically and mentally fit for their life and development'. This is the main philosophical basis of protesting child marriage because mature people can take a mature plan. This maturity range is 18 years in Bangladesh which is accepted in the world. When one party or both parties are immature but engage to marriage is called child marriage. This is customary practiced in our country. Despite signs of progress, Bangladesh continues to have one of the highest child marriage rates worldwide and the highest rate of marriage involving girls under 15. 52% of girls are married by their 18 th birthday, and 18% by the age of 15. Behind this practicing there are many drivers playing active role. As well as deeply embedded cultural and religious beliefs, drivers of child marriage include poverty, parents' desire to secure economic and social security for their daughters, and the perceived need to protect girls from harm, including sexual harassment. This immature practice would not bear a good result in both lives. Child marriage can damage the lives of girls and their families in Bangladesh, including the discontinuation of secondary education, serious health consequences including death as a result of early pregnancy, abandonment and domestic violence from spouses and in-laws. So, all of this consideration government is in strict position to restrain people from committing child marriage practice.
Causes and Effects of Child Abuse
This paper is about causes and effects of child abuse an analytically framework. Child abuse is a burning issue in Bangladesh even in the world. This paper contains some important cause and effects of child abuse. The main objectives of this paper to know a clear concept of child abuse and abusing acts and the outcome and what reasons behind this abuse. At the last content we suggest some important initiatives to control this abuse and some suggestions for the victims.
Multi-Country Analytical Study of Policies, Interventions & Cultural Practices on Child Marriage in Africa, 2019
his report presents a Multi-Country Analysis of Legislation, Policies, Interventions and Cultural Practices on Child Marriage in Africa. The study assessed the state of child marriage in Africa from practice to policy and interventions towards its eradication with a focus on ten countries with a comparatively higher prevalence of child marriage in the continent and globally. A critical emphasis of the study was on the nexus between the existence and implementation of the policies/legislation, and the dominant cultural and religious practices that affect the outcomes of the interventions in those countries, especially in identified hotspot areas within the countries. By focusing on the socio-cultural conditions, policy environment and eradication initiatives, the study provides critical information and perspectives, effective and appropriate programs/investment and policies in Africa to delay the age of marriage and end child marriage as a practice. The study confirms a decline in the prevalence of child marriage in the ten study countries (Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria and Tanzania) over the last three decades. Efforts have been intensified in eradicating child marriage, but it remains a persistent problem in Africa, with the study countries included in the 17 African countries ranked among those with the highest rates of child marriage globally.
TRAUMA OF CHILD ABUSE ON THE NIGERIAN CHILD
The paper examined the concept of child abuse and its level of prevalence in Nigeria as well as accentuating the different prevalent forms of it. The paper also examined the causes of child abuse in Nigeria, subtypes and the effects these have on the Nigerian child. Suggestions were made on the way forward.
An Echo of Silence; Comprehensive Research Study on Early Child Marriage ( full text)
It is a well-documented and an undeniable premise that Early Child Marriage (ECM) dramatically affects and harms the physical and psychological well-being of young children’s lives. In some developing countries, ECM is an economic tool that can improve the economic status of the family. It can fortify bonds between families, ensure girl’s virginity before marriage, controls her sexual desire, and avoids the possibility of a girl reaching an age where she is no longer desirable as a wife by a man or his family2. Complications related to pregnancy and childbirth are the main causes of death amongst 15–19 year-old girls3. Equally devastating are the health consequences which make girls prone to sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. From a social perspective, it is a brutal end to her education and autonomy as well as a minimisation of life choices. Girls are reduced to mere commercial commodities. From a human rights and gender perspective, the practice of ECM is the consequences of gender oppression and harmful customary or traditional practices that results in sustaining gender inequality and subjugation.
RELIGION AS A PRETEXT FOR THE ABUSE OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD
Child abuse under the guise of any religion, like child abuse occasioned by any other factors, is morally reprehensible but common practice in Nigeria. However, its prevalence calls for all hands to be on deck for its total eradication. Injustices, oppression, battery, incidences of wickedness, are prevalent and obviously against religious norms, which teach wholeness, peace, liberty, emancipation and justice. It is against this background that we highlight in this paper the various manifestations of child abuse in Nigeria, within this context, with the aim of soliciting efforts towards its eradication to the world stage, for global attention and possible collaboration.
MENACE OF CHILD ABUSE: A Television Documentary Production
Child abuse has been a global problem affecting the developed, developing and under- developing countries of the world with different measures being taken by both the Government and Non-Governmental organisation to put an end to it. This is a social documentary that used an expository approach to look at the issue of causes, dangers and forms of child abuse. The documentary presented an overview of the role played by the broadcast media in the control of the menace in Nigeria role played by the broadcast with emphasis on the implications of the issues for research, prevention, and policy decision. Media experts, Lawyer, Sociologist, NGO/Social Worker, Police officer and several others were interviewed in the course of this production and they recommended that for Child abuse to be controlled and obliterated a well-focused mass media campaign, educational program or live-theatre production has the potential to contribute successfully to community education and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as well as putting the Legislature on hot spot to propagate more laws to protect the right of every child combined with the power of the media to see make sure that the executive arm of government provides a working structure to execute these laws.
Child Abuse and Neglect; Effects on social security using Abeokuta North Local Government Area Of Ogun State as a Case study. A research project presented to the school of arts and social sciences, National Open University Of Nigeria, Lagos.
Therapeutic approach to sexual abuse
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1984
An account is given of the development of a treatment project for sexually abused children and their families. We review incidence data which indicate that sexual abuse of children is likely to be a far more frequent problem than has been recognised and cause an appreciable degree of psychological damage. Professional responses to this are confused and treatment facilities limited.
Child sexual abuse is a widespread social problem found to be associated with detrimental outcomes in both the short and long term. Efforts by researchers to develop comprehensive understandings of the factors and processes associated with abuse occurrence and outcome have been hampered by a lack of consensus across theory and epistemology. The complexity of the problem has also meant that few studies have attempted to examine risk factors for the occurrence of child sexual abuse simultaneously with outcomes. Attending to this observed gap in the literature, this thesis examined the relationship between factors specific to children, their families and social environments, and the occurrence and outcomes of child sexual abuse for participants in an Australian prospective longitudinal cohort study. Guided by a conceptual framework based on concepts from developmental psychopathology, ecological theory and the Integrated Risk-Sequelae model of child maltreatment (Higgins & McCabe, 19...