Only 1
Minute.
Today the
Topic of my Article is :
Child
Marriage in Pakistan:
I can share
a many cases of Child girl delivery complications, but here I am discussing
about the Child Marriages and It Complications.
Unfortunately
Our Rural areas and Somehow in the Urban areas the Child marriages are
practicing Still now. Due to the illiteracy, they are pushing there daughters in to the death because of so
many difficulties and complications happen prelabor and post labor.
Some
parents believe it is better to marry off their daughters as early as possible.
Some marry their daughters with men as old as their fathers because no match
could be found in their tribes or caste. Their ‘traditions’ don’t allow them to
marry their daughters outside their caste or tribe.
As is the
custom in the remote mountain village of Kohadast in the Khuzdar district of
Balochistan province, Girls was married off as soon as she reached adolescence,
at 15, and was pregnant the following year.
There being
no healthcare facility near Kohadast, No antenatal care and no one thought
there would be complications. But, events were to prove different.
I am asking
,Who is Responsible?
After an extended labour , delivered a dead baby. And this give a
psychological pressure to the Child girl, Think that a women cannot bear the
pain of dead baby so how that Child girl can.
There are
no Special Hospitals which deal with the Pathologies and labor itself. They
take experienced Women who used to do normal labors and she donot know what
will happen next and how to do management. With this the labor become worst
,Become fatal for both (Child girl and also to the coming baby).
Government do not want to waste a money on the these and
they donot have a time to listen to these problems. Government is saying that
Doctors are responsible, How?
If some one
wants to help to the girls , family attributed her condition to fate.
It is
estimated that 10 million girls a year are married before they reach the age of
18. The time for action on child marriage is now.
In Pakistan
, Approximately one woman dies every 20 minutes during childbirth and the major
cause of the high maternal mortality ratio of 276 per 100,000 live births is
child marriage. This is a Government figure but I think that more deaths are
happening.
Who is
Responsible?
The
traditional yardstick among rural backward communities for a girl to become fit
for marriage is her ability to lift a water-filled pitcher. The girls are named
for future marriages at their birth or even before their birth. Some parents
due to poverty give their minor girls into marriages.
Who is
Responsible?
According
to Child Marriages Restraint Act 1929 and Muslim Family Law (1961), the age of
the girl to legally qualify for marriage is 16 and that for boy is 18. Even
this gender discriminatory law is not implemented.
I also take a review of a Bill which was put in
parliament in 2009:
further to amend the Child Marriage
Restraint Act, 1929 (No. XIX of 1929)
STATEMENT
OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
Poverty, illiteracy, social and
cultural practices are factors citied for the prevalence of child
marriages. An early marriage leads
to early conception, which ultimately affects the health of the teenage
girl. Typically enormous pressure to
bear children is put on child brides. In developing countries; the
leading cause of death for young
girls between the ages of 15 and 18 is early pregnancy. A child
according to the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child is any person under the age of 18.
Unfortunately the practice of child
marriages is common in all parts of Pakistan particularly in the poor
urban and rural areas. This
amendment is intended to serve as a deterrent and to remove the existing
gender
disparity in age.
But nothing.
This is
same as while asking to the father of the child girls that who is responsible
for this all.
They used
to said that only fate is responsible for this all.
Our rulers
and parliament ,while asking from them who is responsible of this.
They told
me that the Fate of these peoples.
So I Conclude
from all that Fate is responsible only……
Really Shame on us.
Cannot Say
any thing More.
We are not
sincere with each other and do not forget that Allah will not let us go .
Allah will definitely
ask about this.
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Regard.
Furqan Ali
Khan.
20.10.2012
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