{"id":9686,"date":"2011-03-29T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:29:05","slug":"50-percent-women-married-as-minors-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/50-percent-women-married-as-minors-experts","title":{"rendered":"50 percent women married as minors: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9687\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/50-percent-women-married-as-minors-experts\/minors\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?fit=265%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"265,190\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"minors\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?fit=265%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9687\" title=\"minors\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?resize=265%2C190&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?w=265&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/minors.jpg?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>Nearly 50 percent of marriages in India involve minors &#8211; children under the age of 18 years, thanks to the poor implementation of the law, experts said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The consequence of child marriage is in conflict with the development aspirations of the country,&#8217; Ranjana Kumari, president of the WomenPowerConnect (WPC), said at a national workshop on gender inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>She was referring to the National Family Health Survey 3, which has reported that 45 percent women aged 20-24 years were already married before the age of 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It (child marriage) perpetuates health problems, marital violence, poverty and economic inequality, lack of education and awareness, lack of reproductive choice and access to measures of fertility management,&#8217; she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is important to know that the high economic growth that we are boasting about is not directly leading to better social development due to practices like child marriage, domestic violence and female foeticide still plaguing our country,&#8217; 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