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“You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan
Young people in Pakistan face challenges such as child marriage, which have adverse consequences on their education, employment, health and overall well-being. We conducted interviews (26) and focus group discussions (12) with young people (15 to 24 years) and community stakeholders to understand ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37773957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266865 |
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author | Kakal, Tasneem Kok, Maryse Jawad, Maryam |
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description | Young people in Pakistan face challenges such as child marriage, which have adverse consequences on their education, employment, health and overall well-being. We conducted interviews (26) and focus group discussions (12) with young people (15 to 24 years) and community stakeholders to understand how child marriage is perceived by them and to gain insight into the decision-making regarding marriage of youth in Sindh, Pakistan. Study findings show that many young people wish to marry later, but recognize that child marriage is used as a protective strategy to cope with poverty and prevent sexual activity prior to marriage. Young people are expected to obey elders and young women are relegated to domestic roles which limit their decision-making about marriage. Young people and parents who are educated seem to have more negotiating power in delaying marriage than those with little or no education. Our results suggest that interventions should focus on expanding education and livelihood opportunities for young women while changing social norms through parental engagement and youth empowerment. |
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spelling | pubmed-105409602023-10-01 “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan Kakal, Tasneem Kok, Maryse Jawad, Maryam PLoS One Research Article Young people in Pakistan face challenges such as child marriage, which have adverse consequences on their education, employment, health and overall well-being. We conducted interviews (26) and focus group discussions (12) with young people (15 to 24 years) and community stakeholders to understand how child marriage is perceived by them and to gain insight into the decision-making regarding marriage of youth in Sindh, Pakistan. Study findings show that many young people wish to marry later, but recognize that child marriage is used as a protective strategy to cope with poverty and prevent sexual activity prior to marriage. Young people are expected to obey elders and young women are relegated to domestic roles which limit their decision-making about marriage. Young people and parents who are educated seem to have more negotiating power in delaying marriage than those with little or no education. Our results suggest that interventions should focus on expanding education and livelihood opportunities for young women while changing social norms through parental engagement and youth empowerment. Public Library of Science 2023-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10540960/ /pubmed/37773957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266865 Text en © 2023 Kakal et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kakal, Tasneem Kok, Maryse Jawad, Maryam “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title | “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title_full | “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title_fullStr | “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title_short | “You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan |
title_sort | “you are a child and this is not your business”: decision-making on child marriage in sindh, pakistan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37773957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266865 |
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