You must have seen many women around having kids at an age of just 15 to 16 years; neither it’s right from the health’s perspective
nor is it good for the society. But, you will find many premature
mothers in India especially in small towns and villages. Time has been
changing and we are developing; are we really focusing on a healthy and upgraded society.
During recent survey conducted in India by WHO, 45% women accepted that they got married before attaining the age of 18 years. Legal age for marriage in India is 18 years for girls and 21 years for boys. Bal Vivah still prevails in India and there are many places in India where people don’t mind getting their children married before the legal age. Just imagine the situation of a girl who gets married at an age of 10 to 12 years. She is so innocent and young to even understand the meaning of the relationships; that little child, who is still at the stage of playing and kidding is sent to her in laws after marriage and her parents expect her to be happy. Don’t we think, it’s totally out of the sense and indiectly it’s a social as well as moral crime. We are snatching the childhood pleasure, experience and all innocence by doing this.
Several social awareness camps have been organized and many movies and serials (Including the recent one-Balika Badhu on Colours) have been shown to people across the country; but the result is not so encouraging. Figures speak; 45% of women are still there, who were made to do so and people behind this are true criminals as they have taken the first step to ruin their life. Many premature marriage come to an end with sexual harassment and death due to premature pregnancy; what should be call such incidences; are we doing justification with our ethics and morale. Simly no; we need to pause at this level from taking part in this; each and every Indian is responsible in development of our society and should be active in preventing all these social discriminations.
Several laws have been incorporated
but, we need to follow them instead of waiting for some one to come to
us and stop these ill factors. Laws are to be followed peacefully and
not to be enforced once things necessarily wrong. Good news is that, a
large portion of the population
has accepted the need of hours and avoiding Bal Vivah; still, there are
many places where it’s going on; so, when we will be able to eradicate
this social crime completely.
Jaago Indians! Stop Bal Vivah!
During recent survey conducted in India by WHO, 45% women accepted that they got married before attaining the age of 18 years. Legal age for marriage in India is 18 years for girls and 21 years for boys. Bal Vivah still prevails in India and there are many places in India where people don’t mind getting their children married before the legal age. Just imagine the situation of a girl who gets married at an age of 10 to 12 years. She is so innocent and young to even understand the meaning of the relationships; that little child, who is still at the stage of playing and kidding is sent to her in laws after marriage and her parents expect her to be happy. Don’t we think, it’s totally out of the sense and indiectly it’s a social as well as moral crime. We are snatching the childhood pleasure, experience and all innocence by doing this.
Several social awareness camps have been organized and many movies and serials (Including the recent one-Balika Badhu on Colours) have been shown to people across the country; but the result is not so encouraging. Figures speak; 45% of women are still there, who were made to do so and people behind this are true criminals as they have taken the first step to ruin their life. Many premature marriage come to an end with sexual harassment and death due to premature pregnancy; what should be call such incidences; are we doing justification with our ethics and morale. Simly no; we need to pause at this level from taking part in this; each and every Indian is responsible in development of our society and should be active in preventing all these social discriminations.
Several laws have been incorporated
but, we need to follow them instead of waiting for some one to come to
us and stop these ill factors. Laws are to be followed peacefully and
not to be enforced once things necessarily wrong. Good news is that, a
large portion of the population
has accepted the need of hours and avoiding Bal Vivah; still, there are
many places where it’s going on; so, when we will be able to eradicate
this social crime completely.Jaago Indians! Stop Bal Vivah!
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