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Child Marriage (Girls) in Bangladesh and its Remedies from Islamic Perspective
Muhammad Faizul Haque, Sumaiya Islam, Mst. Rikta Banu ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This paper looks at child marriage among girls in Bangladesh using a review of existing literature. It describes the main causes, including poverty, traditional views about girls, parents with little education and weak enforcement of the law. It also describes harms to young couples, such as psychological trauma, reproductive health problems, more domestic violence and lower literacy. The paper then discusses how Islamic teachings from the Qur'an and Sunnah could be used to prevent child marriage.
Key points
- Child marriage under age 18 is a criminal offence and violates the state's constitutional law in Bangladesh.
- Causes named include high poverty, normative thoughts about the position of girls, a high rate of uneducated parents, and weak enforcement of the law.
- Early marriage is linked to psychological trauma, reproductive health issues, increased domestic violence and increased illiteracy.
- Islam strongly discourages arranging a girl's marriage without her full consent.
- The paper analyses prevention based on the Qur'an and Sunnah.
Limitations
The study is a qualitative review of existing literature, so it presents no new data and cannot measure how common child marriage is or how well any remedy works. The abstract gives no detail on how sources were chosen.
Abstract
Child marriage under the age of 18 is considered as a criminal offence and a violation of the state’s constitutional law. Most of the time child marriage occurs in Bangladesh due to poverty and lack of awareness of its consequence. In Islam, it is strongly discouraged to arrange the marriage of girls without taking their full consent. However, this paper explores the present scenario of cultural practices of child marriage occurring in Bangladesh. The study will also focus on highlighting the major causes that led to child marriage under the age of puberty. The paper will also highlight the states’ constitutional law on child marriage and their jurisdiction over the issue. The current study adopts qualitative methods to meet its objectives through investigating existing available literature related to the issue concerned. The study finds that child marriage often occurs due to high-rate poverty, normative thoughts about the position of girls, high rate of uneducated parents and lack of strict implementation of constitutional law on those who are involved such kind of act in the family and in society. The study also finds through its discussion that due to early marriage young couples go through certain serious issues which affect their life crucially, i.e., psychological trauma, reproductive health issues, increasing domestic violence and increasing illiteracy rates in the family and in society. Finally, the present study will analyze how to prevent child marriage based on the Islamic teachings set by the Qur’an and Sunnah