Early Marriage In Bangladesh

Early Marriage is one of the social evils of our country. Early Marriage means to get married before becoming mature. Still in many remote parts of our country, this social vice is being practiced and in most cases girls are the victims of this evil. However in many cases, boys are also forced to marry at a tender age. Most of the people in our country are illiterate. They do not think much. They think that daughters should be married off as soon as possible because they consider them a burden upon their head. This early marriage has some destructive effects on the minds and bodies of the young girls and boys as well as their future generation which hamper the overall progress of our society. First, a girl who is married off at the age of 12-15, loses her health. Because she is married off before she reaches physical maturity necessary to be a wife. For this reason, she is likely to give birth to an unhealthy child which suffers from different types of health challenges and in many cases dies just after birth. And she suffers much and sometimes dies during the delivery of her child. Those who are alive become weak and suffer from malnutrition. Second, as soon as she gets married, she becomes only a wife but loses all her hopes, dreams and potentialities.

She can, no more, be a doctor, nurse, teacher and anything else except a mother. As a result our society loses human potentialities because of the early marriage. She becomes deprived of the light of education, remains unaware of the world and even herself. Like a girl, a boy who marries early in also faces a lot of problems. He has to earn and so gives up his education as well as deprives his society of his hidden talents. All these things together block the progress and development of our society. So in order to stop early marriage, all of us should come forward and make a massive campaign against it.