India Fails to Control Child Marriage

Bangalore: Child Marriage is a social injustice which still occurs in many parts of the world. India itself has a child marriage rate of 40 percent as highlighted by the 2009 Unicef report. The Prohibition of Child Marriage (PCM) Act of 2006 has proven ineffectively in preventing the high number of child marriages in the country.
The ongoing child marriage scene in India will have severe repercussions as per the experts. As estimated by the experts 100 million girls are fated to child marriage by 2014 worldwide, reported Rashme Sehgal for Deccan Chronicle. The number is unbelievable and demands effective remedy.

Child marriage in the world does occur in parts of Africa, South America, Asia and Oceania; previously it was also practiced in Europe, where children are married before the marriageable age or even before puberty. It is practiced like the traditional arrange marriage and the consent of the child bride or groom is out of question. In some marriages it’s a girl child who is married to an elderly man for money. This mostly happens in impoverished families who see the girl child as a liability.

The president of Women Power Connect (WPC), Dr Ranjana Kumari, one of the organizers stated, “The PCM Act 2006 has failed to prevent child marriages primarily because the majority of states have failed to frame rules to ensure its speedy implementation,” reported by Deccan Chronicle.

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