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We found that some 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018: 232,474 based on marriage-certificate data plus 64,559 based on estimates . A few children were as young as 10 years when they married, but of those for whom age information was available, nearly all—96%—were aged 16 or 17 years.
Jul 31, 2020 · A Good Age to Marry? An Intergenerational Model of the Influence of Timing Attitudes on Entrance into Marriage - PMC. Journal List. Eur J Popul. v.37 (1); 2021 Mar. PMC7865042. As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature.
- Keera Allendorf, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J Ghimire, Linda Young-DeMarco, Colter Mitchell
- 10.1007/s10680-020-09565-x
- 2021
- Eur J Popul. 2021 Mar; 37(1): 179-209.
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Apr 27, 2018 · Children have a central role to play in parents’ decision whether to get married. The narrators talk about marriage as a way to strengthen the family legally, publically, and privately. Marriage is not only (or primarily) a rite for a couple in love; rather, it is a validation of the whole family in which children are included.
- Karin Jarnkvist
- 2019
Oct 1, 2010 · Historically, most children were born to and raised by married parents. In recent decades, the living arrangements of children have become increasingly varied and unstable ( Kreider, 2007 ).
- Susan L. Brown
- 2010
- A Historical Journey on Terminology
- Parsing Out “Marriage”
- Parsing Out “Child”
- The Need to Focus on Girls
- Overlaps and Distinctions with Forced and Early Marriage
- Measuring Girl Child Marriage
The concept of the term “child marriage” appears to have strong roots in India, perhaps unsurprisingly, as it is a country with high rates that has led rigorous activism for over a century. Some of the earliest discussions identified in published literature came from India, raising questions about marital unions that were early and with questions s...
To understand what is referred to as “girl child marriage” requires an understanding of the construct of marriage itself. International legal frameworks have sought to define marriage. As illustrated by the Convention to Regulate Conflicts of Laws in the Matter of Marriage, drafted by 12 European countries in 1902 (and later dissolved), and the Hav...
The construct of “girl child marriage” also incorporates the concept of a “child,” another ambiguous and difficult term to define. Here, too, international legal frameworks have played an important role in creating shared global norms defining childhood. As early as 1924, the League of Nations, a precursor to the United Nations (UN) established aft...
We have elected to suggest the need to make a distinction between “child marriage” and “girl child marriage,” a departure from most publications by explicitly engaging with the construct of a “girl.” Child marriage, by definition, impacts both boys and girls , yet existing research and advocacy emphasize girls affected due to the prevalence of the ...
Forced marriage refers to a formal union without the free and full consent of both parties . In contrast to definitions of child, or early, marriage, it is not age-bound. To some, child and early marriage are considered forms of forced marriage because in many contexts, a child, by definition, is unable to provide free and full consent. Such perspe...
With such possible variations in an understanding of girl child marriage, it is likely clear that measurement is imperfect. UN estimates use data from the DHS, UNICEF MICS, and other national surveys measuring child marriage as the “percentage of women 20-24 years old who were first married or in union” before 15 years and 18 years . This conventio...
- Yvette Efevbera, Jacqueline Bhabha
- 2020
Results. The final conceptual framework lays out five core drivers of child marriage for girls, which vary and interact across contexts. Social norms and poverty are shown as core drivers that underlie lack of agency, lack of opportunity, and pregnancy/fear of pregnancy. These drivers reflect community, household, and individual-level factors.
Jul 17, 2020 · Results show that children born to women who were married before the age of 18 had 25% higher odds of being off-track in terms of development and 29% higher odds of experiencing stunted growth compared to those whose mothers married later . This was explained by the disparities in advanced maternal education and wealth.
