Early (Child) Marriage in Nigeria: Causes, Effects.

Child Marriage is common in various places throughout the globe and is much more common with girls than boys. According to a survey by UNICEF, “One of every seven girls gets married before they turn fifteen and one of every three girls gets married under age, that is before they turn eighteen. The Highest rate of child marriage is in West Africa.

Early marriage and forced marriage is most common in Sub-Saharan Africa where 38% of girls become child brides. Among girls growing up in South Asia, 30% experience early marriage, compared with 25% in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rates are 17% in the Middle East and North Africa, and 11% in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. (Figures from.

Nigeria is a great country with great people but to sustain the development of the nation, a particular breed which enhances the development of any nation has been left to the menace of early marriage. The girl child is the future of generations and.

In child marriage, the girl bears a child at the early age and the infant born has 75% of the higher risk to survival and more likely to have low birth weight and more risk of getting diseases. The girls get married at a younger age are more likely to experience violence, and domestic abuse in their family and this violence make calls stress on the girl, and she might go into depression.

The aim of this study is to use grounded theory methods to develop a theory about how children are been abused and the consequences of these abuse in Nigeria with specific reference to Niger Delta region. The theory generated is intended to derive a.

EFFECTS OF EARLY GIRL CHILD MARRIAGE Young girls may endure misery as a result of early marriage and he number of those who would seek help, if they though it existed, is possible to calculate. One thing is clear, the impact or effect of early girl child marriage is under ranging.

Causes and Consequences of Child Marriage: A Perspective. much more work is needed to eliminate the detrimental cultural practice of child marriage of young girls in Nigeria and proffered a.

The girl-child: problems and survival in the Nigerian context. Anyanwu SO. PIP: This article examines the living conditions and survival of girl children in Nigeria and the preferential treatment of boy children. Girls are discriminated against in Nigeria in access to educational opportunity, food, and nutrition.

One of the most common causes of death for girls 15 to 19 in developing countries was pregnancy and child birth comparing these statistical facts to rate of early marriage in Nigeria, shows that the practice is not as rampant there, as other parts of Africa and the world that practice it in Nigeria, it still takes place in some pats of the country especially the Northern parts and this.

A situation analysis of child abuse and neglect in Nigeria, undertaken through the medium of Nigerian newspapers, found that child abandonment, sexual abuse, child neglect, vagrancy, kidnapping and hawking were the most reported forms of child abuse-and neglect.2 In many instances young girls and boys are sent from rural areas to families in the cities to serve as house-maids and house-boys.

The report says Kebbi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Katsina, and Gombe states have Nigeria’s worst girl child education, highest female illiteracy, highest adolescent girl marriage.

LEGALITY OF CHILD MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA 461 show that girls with three or fewer years of schooling are five times more likely than girls with eight or more years of schooling to marry before age 18 (Population Council, 2004). In the global struggle that has highlighted the plight of uneducated girls in poor countries as most.