Nepal rated 3rd in South Asia

Nepal rated 3rd in South Asia

The decision of marriage is one of the major decisions ever made in a person's life. The right decision of marriage in a right time with a right person takes a person to the highest peak of success and satisfaction but on the other hand, the wrong one makes a couple repent in every moment of their life. They are compelled to think if they revolted a bit, the situation could have been different. A person gets the power of making right decision with maturity from several ups and downs of his/ her life. Bitter experiences make a person able in critically thinking about the major issues of life.

Marriage is not the thing to do done one after another in case of wrong match. Family environment matters a lot for a person's success in return of his/ her hard labour. If the family environment is disturbed, s/he cannot concentrate on any work in a proper manner, thus the probability of adverse situation is high.

A child has neither proper practical education nor experience to take a right decision of marriage with a right choice in a right time. S/he hasn't seen the world around him/ her properly and s/he is under family pressure for marriage which causes mental disturbances in the long run because it is not the ending point, rather the beginning one when s/he is forcibly imposed the family responsibilities just for the happiness of some elderly and conservative people.

Nepal has been rated third in position with regard to child marriage incidents in the South Asia. According to a statistics made public by the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in Nepal in 2003, 60 per cent adolescent girls in Nepal do marriage before 18. Likewise, a study commissioned by the government in 2006 reveals that one third adolescent girls at age group 15-19 are in marital status.

The report said that child marriage has witnessed high rate in Parsa district due to the prevalence of poverty, illiteracy and traditional norms and values.
According to a study carried out by Divya and Adaraniya Youth Club - an NGO crusading against child marriage - in 16 VDCs of Parsa, at least 46 incidents of child married occurred in the year. The organisation was successful in preventing 19 cases of child marriage during the period.

The high child marriage rate is caused by the lack of public awareness and illiteracy compounded by the sluggish implementation of existing laws on child marriage, says the Chief of Women and Children Development Office, Parsa, Urbara Luitel.