1.1 Background of The Study
1.1 Background of The Study
1.1 Background of The Study
Introduction
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where a huge number of people live. Deteriorating socio-economic conditions of slum dwellers
is a major cause of unstable and fragile life of the women living there.
Early marriage also has implications for the well-being of families, and for society as a whole. It
extends a women’s potential childbearing capacity, which itself represents a risk to mother. Late
marriage always cut the reproductive span of a woman and when marriage has occurred at an
earlier age then she has more time to produce birth throughout her reproductive life span.
Under these circumstances, early marriage may bring some physical and mental complexities to
the mothers. Progress made by Bangladesh regarding this issue, especially those factors that are
related to early marriage and sequentially early conception has extremely slow However, no
systematic effort till date has been strongly undertaken by civil society organizations (CSOs) and
public or private organizations as well. In this study, an attempt was made to analyze
Comprehensively early marriage and conception of women based on findings of interviews
conducted with 100 ever-married women from five slum areas under meherpur city, Bangladesh.
The present study has tried to delineate these issues across different socio-economic conditions
of the respondents.
The study also revealed that education, family’s monthly income, religion are the most
influential factors in determining the likelihood of early age at marriage and conception as well.
This present study will try to find out not only the socio demographic but also the economic
factors of early marriage in Bangladesh.
Poverty
Religious reasons
Gender bias promotes early marriage of girls
Lack of education
Religious reasons
Myths and misconceptions about early marriage
Pressures from older members of the family and community
Social pressure in some parts of the world
To raise the economic and social status
Responsibility: Responsibility has to be shouldered at a very young age. One has to take on
household responsibilities, child rearing responsibility etc. There is no adult to guide or help out
in case the Couple are living alone.
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Teenage Life: Missing out on the fun of teenage life and being young. The drudgeries of married
life can get on to the unmatured minds. This affects the overall growth of individuals and in most
of cases they do not turn up to be aresponsible citizens.
Divorce: Breakdown of marriage is possible. Often the young couples are immature to shoulder
major responsibilities of life and end up fighting with each other. Adjustment problems may
arise primarily after childbirth which could be either financial or responsibility.
Education: The young couple may not be able to pursue higher education as they have to take
on the responsibilities of family budget. About 50% of the women who are pregnant in their
teens only complete their high school education in USA whereas 90% women complete it who
never got pregnant in their teens.
Children Life: According to CDC, children born out of teenage mothers tend to drop out of high
school, get lower scores at school, suffer from health issues, unemployment and they themselves
are prone to be married early.
Health: Health also can get affected as early pregnancy can have a negative impact on overall
health primarily for women.
1.6 Computations
Regardless of their origin, machine learning, and time series analysis techniques must be
implemented on a computer. Through the sophisticated statistical packages, computer technology
made the implementation step easier.
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1.7 Scope and limitations of the study
The limitations of this work include the following:
Time: Time cannot be over emphasized when talking of limitations of this study because it was one of
the major hindrances the researcher faced during this study.
Finance/fund: This was the greatest limitation or hindrance the re searcher en counted on the course of
this work. A lot of fund was needed to carry out this work perfectly.
Respondents: It was not easy per say for him to convince then (respondents) that the study is
merely on academic exercise due to the high level of illiteracy among the people of the area in
the sense that majority of their representatives/functionaries does not know the particular year.
Thus , in spite of the above limitations, in this project we could be able to achieve his objectives
by prioritizing this study to other of his activities because of time, using of interpreters on
respondents because of high rate of illiteracy and effective and efficient use of the little resources
in his possession. Meanwhile data collection went smoothly in spite of the above
challenges, presumably because the interviewers were hired/recruited locally and known to the
respondents.
1.8 Conclusion
Early marriage which is also referred to as child marriage is common all over the globe and has
inflicted dangerous and devastating effects on young children (especially females) who are
completed to tie the knot in most cases. The average age at first marriage for female in
Bangladesh is 16.0 years (BBS, 2011). Early marriage is more frequent for female than their
male counterparts. In rural Bangladesh there are many social pressures to marry of pubescent
girls. If the marriage of a pubescent girl is delayed, her parents and sometimes the girl herself are
made to feel guilty. Poverty is one of the major factors under pining early marriages. The study
also revealed that education, family’s monthly income, religion are the most influential factors in
determining the likelihood of early age at marriage and conception as well. this present study
will try to find out not only the socio demographic but also the economic factors of early
marriage in Bangladesh.